Research Catalog

Title

The book of instruction in the elements of the art of astrology, by Abu'l-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī; written in Ghaznah, 1029 A.D.; reproduced from Brit. mus. ms. Or. 8349; the translation facing the text by R. Ramsay Wright ....

Author

Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048.

Publication

London, Luzac & co., 1934.

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Additional Authors

• Wright, Robert Ramsay, 1852-1933.
• British Museum. Manuscript. Oriental 8349.

Description

2 p. l., xviii, 333, [i.e. 337] p., 3 l. illus., diagrs.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

al-Tafhīm li-awāʼil ṣināʻat al-tanjīm.

Subjects

• Science, Medieval
• Science and astrology

Note

• Added t.-p. in Arabic.
• Pages of Arabic text unnumbered.
• First part of paragraph no. 268 of the translation on slip mounted on p. 160.
• "Printed by the Replika process."
• Arabic text (facsimile reprint) on rectos with English translation on opposite versos.

Call Number

*OGA (Bīrūnī, M. ibn A. al-. Book of instruction in the elements of the art of astrology)

LCCN

35038118 //r864

OCLC

3109131

Author

Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048.

Title

The book of instruction in the elements of the art of astrology, by Abu'l-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī; written in Ghaznah, 1029 A.D.; reproduced from Brit. mus. ms. Or. 8349; the translation facing the text by R. Ramsay Wright ....

Imprint

London, Luzac & co., 1934.

Local Note

"The edition is limited to one hundred copies of which this is no. 95."

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Added Author

Wright, Robert Ramsay, 1852-1933. Translator

British Museum. Manuscript. Oriental 8349.

Added Title

al-Tafhīm li-awāʼil ṣināʻat al-tanjīm.

Research Call Number

*OGA (Bīrūnī, M. ibn A. al-. Book of instruction in the elements of the art of astrology)