Work B.3.3
Pseudo-Ptolemy and the Indians
كتاب طالع المولود مختصر للرجال والنساء
Kitāb Ṭāliʿ al-mawlūd mukhtaṣar li-l-rijāl wa-l-nisāʾ
A text describing the features of the natives based on their ascendant, divided into twelve chapters (one for each sign) for male and twelve for female natives. In each chapter, a general description is followed by more detailed ones based on the ascending decan and the houses. Although displaying a very similar structure to the Kitāb Ṭawāliʿ al-burūj (B.3.2), the present work is clearly different from it.
The text’s ultimate origin remains unknown and there is no evidence that it is identical with the unidentified Kitāb al-Mawālīd ascribed to Ptolemy by Ibn al-Nadīm. For a discussion of this and related texts, see B.3.2.
Text: [London, WL, Ar. 884]
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Bibl.: Ibn al-Nadīm, Fihrist (ed. FlügelGustav Flügel, Kitâb al-Fihrist, 2 vols, Leipzig: Vogel, 1871–1872, vol. I, p. 268, line 7, tr. DodgeBayard Dodge, The Fihrist of al-Nadīm. A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture, 2 vols, New York / London: Columbia University Press, 1970, vol. I, p. 640, line 7).
Ed.: None.
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