Work B.4.1
Pseudo-Ptolemy
أحكام الشعرى اليمانيّة
Aḥkām al-shiʿrā al-yamāniyya
Astrometeorological predictions for the entire year based on the position of the Moon in the zodiacal signs at the time of the heliacal rising of Sirius. The text is divided into twelve chapters (one for each sign) and a brief additional chapter on determining the zodiacal sign in which Sirius rises.
The text belongs to the Malḥama-tradition, while appearing less rich than most versions of the Malḥamat Dānyāl (on this tradition and its witnesses, see Schmidl, who provides further literature). The date of composition of the present work is unknown and the sole known manuscript undated, though comparatively old (a dating to the 8th/14th c. has been repeatedly proposed). Sezgin wondered whether Berlin, SBPK, Or. oct. 198 may contain the same work, but this is not the case.
Text: [Dublin, CBL, Ar. 5018]
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Bibl.: GAS VIIFuat Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. Vol. VII: Astrologie – Meteorologie und Verwandtes bis ca. 430 H., Leiden: Brill, 1979, p. 312 (no. 4); Petra G. Schmidl, ‘Al-Ashraf ˁUmar’s Tabṣira: Chapter xxxiv. Rainbows, Shooting Stars, and Haloes as Signs of the Future’, in Klaus Herbers and Hans-Christian Lehner (eds), Dreams, Nature, and Practices as Signs of the Future in the Middle Ages, Leiden: Brill, 2022, pp. 252–309, here pp. 269–270.
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