Cod.: paper, 69 ff. (both foliated and paginated with Arabic-European numerals; f. 39 written upside-down, hence to be read in the order 39v–39r; catchwords). A single, slightly inconsistent black naskh hand; fully dotted ductus with occasional vowels, shaddas and tanwīns. Oversized work titles and chapter headings in black and red; subchapter beginnings in red. A carelessly drawn diagram consisting of various cells and shapes, partly filled with the names of the zodiacal signs and sets of dots, but apparently not related to geomancy (43r); a carelessly drawn table for onomancy (50v). Text framed, presumably in red. Codex in good condition; some smudges, ff. 1 and 13 partially torn with significant loss of text; one or more folios lost after f. 47 and at the end. Dimensions: 210×150 mm; 15 lines per page. Recent European half-leather binding (Vajda & Morelon).

Cont.: astrology and divination. — Index: Kitāb Kabirkas, a Coptic calendar purportedly translated from Greek and providing astronomical and meteorological information (1r–29v); maqāla ukhrā fī ayyām al-Nasīm (29v); maqāla ukhrā fī ayyām al-Nasīm, different from the previous text and with an appendix beginning in wulidat fī-hi l-sana bi-l-asad fa-inna-hu burj thālith min burj al-nār takthuru l-amṭār fi awwal al-sana (29v–30v); maqāla ukhrā fī dukhūl al-sinīn bi-l-ithnay ʿashar burjan, based on the position of the Moon in the signs on 25 Abīb (30v–39r); Ptolemaica (39v, 39r, 40r–42r); ṣifat manāzil al-qamar (42r–43r); maqāla ukhrā fī Nawwārīz (sic) ʿalā ʿadad ayyām al-jumʿa (43v–45r); maqāla ukhra fī maʿrifat sādis Ṭūbā wa-mā yaḥduthu fī-hā min al-saḥāb wa-l-maṭar ʿalā ʿadad ayyām al-jumʿa (45r–46r); maqāla ukhrā mushtamila ʿalā l-daraj wa-l-daqāʾiq (46v); maqāla ukhrā fī-mā khtārū-hu al-falakiyya li-l-asfār ʿalā mā sharaḥa-hu Baṭlamyūs al-ḥakīm wa-dhālika ṣāḥib al-raṣad min sayr al-qamar fī l-burūj (46v–47v); maqāla ukhra fī maʿrifat al-nikāḥ maʿa l-zawjān (sic) hal huwa ṣāliḥ am lā (47v, end lost); … fī maʿrifat dukhūl al-sana bi-ayyām al-jumʿa (48r–49v, first lines lost); maqāla ukhra fī maʿrifat al-ghālib bi-ḥisāb al-jummal al-ṣaghīr (49v); maqāla ukhra fī burj al-jadī aw al-ḥamal aw al-saraṭān aw al-qaws (49v–50r); maqāla ukhra fī maʿrifat qaḍāʾ al-ḥāja wa-ṭalabi-hā min ayy shayʾ yakūn (50r); maqāla ukhra fī maʿrifat mā laka wa-mā ʿalayka (50r–50v); onomancy table wa-hādhā malḥūqa bi-l-maʿrifa (50v); maqāla ukhra fī maʿrifat al-ghālib wa-l-maghlūb (51r–54v); fāʾida fī maʿrifat al-jummal ʿalā qāʾida ḥisāb al-ghālib wa-l-maghlūb (54v–55r); maqāla ukhra fī maʿrifat al-marīḍ fī yawm marḍi-hi (55v–56v); maqāla ukhra fī ʿalāmat al-marīḍ ʿalā sabʿa ayyām al-jumʿa (57r–57v); maqāla ukhra fī maʿrifat ziyād al-Nīl bi-Miṣr (57v–58v); maqāla ukhra fī ʿalāmāt al-raʿd ʿalā ʿadad shuhūr al-sana (58v–62v); ʿalāma ukhra fī ʿalāmat qaws al-saḥāb wa-kayfiyyat ruʾyati-hi (62v); maqāla ukhra fī ʿalāmat al-qaws (63r–63v); maqāla ukhra fī maʿrifat kusūf al-shams ʿalā l-shuhūr al-ʿarabiyya (63v–64v); maqāla ukhra fī ʿalāmat al-ahilla al-ʿarabiyya wa-mā yaḥduthu fī-hā (64v–66r); maqāla ukhra fī dārat al-qamar wa-mā yaḥduthu fī-hā ʿalā ʿadad al-shuhūr al-rūmiyya (66r–66v); maqāla ukhra fī maʿrifat 〈sādis〉 Ṭūbā wa-mā yaḥduthu fī-hā ʿalā ʿadad ayyām al-jumʿa (66v–69r); maqāla ukhra ʿalā arbaʿa azmana wa-maʿrifati-hā min jihat al-nujūm (69r–69v, end lost). Blank: none.

Bibl.: Edgar Blochet, ‘Inventaire de la collection de manuscrits musulmans de M. Décourdemanche’, Journal Asiatique Onzième série 8 (1916), pp. 305–423, here pp. 329–330; George Vajda and Régis Morelon, Notices des manuscrits arabes rédigées par George Vajda et Régis Morelon (Arabe 6670 à 6854) (unpublished typescript, MS arabe 7308/1), Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1940–1969, p. 25. BnF Archives et manuscrits: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc33641z.