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Kitāb al-mawālīd
Scorpio


25v Scorpio

26v Scorpio

27v Scorpio
Title : Book of nativities, attributed to Abu Maʿschar
Author of text: Abū Maʿšar al-Balḥī, Ğaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar (0805?-0886).
Publication Date : 1300
Subject: Astrology
Type: manuscript
Language: Arabic
Format: Many coloured drawings, the first four represent Satan and other demons. - Paper. - 37 sheets. - Height, 36 inches; width 26 and a half centimeters. About 27 lines per page.
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Arabe 2583
Description : Kitab al-mawālīd
Description: The drawings show the figures of the zodiac signs, the phases of the moon personified, and other bizarre pictures. The first pages are missing. The last two pages, more modern than the rest of the ms., are dated to the year 700 AH (1300 AD).
Referenced on p17, The Mamluks - 1250-1517 by David Nicolle:
This Arabic treatise on astrology by Abu Ma'shar al Balkhi may have been made in mid-14th-century Iraq or in the Mamluk Sultanate. The equipment illustrated is likely to have been common to both sides. Here 'Mars' slays 'Scorpio' with a large sabre. He has the usual pointed helmet with ear or cheek pieces and a mail aventail over his shoulders. His lamellar jawshan, however, includes sleeves, and appears to open down the side. (Bib. Nat., Ms. Ar. 2583, f.24v, Paris)

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