Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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Ar. 345 - 2
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Obverse:
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Ar. 345 - 1
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Image Number:
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JRL050259dc
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Image Title:
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Horoscope
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Subject:
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Astronomy
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Subject:
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Astrology
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Description:
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Incomplete horoscope (no planet entered) and computation for a lunar eclipse possibility for 22 July 1861
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Creation site:
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Egypt
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Language:
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Arabic
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Script:
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Numerals: Hindu-Arabic, eastern
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Script:
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Arabic
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Support material:
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Paper
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Item height:
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220 mm
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Item width:
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179 mm
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Folio:
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1 / 1 leaf, verso
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Goldstein, B.R. and D. Pingree, 'The astronomical tables of al-Khwārizmī in a nineteenth century Egyptian text', JAOS 98, 1978, pp. 96-9 (facs. ed., translation, commentary).
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Notes:
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20 lines. Original astronomical tables of Al-Khwārizmī applied in the computation. These tables in their Arabic original are now lost.
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Discovery site:
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Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
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Current repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Former repository:
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Moses Gaster
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Fragments
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Image rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Work rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access rights:
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester |
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Image sequence number:
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PAR00345-2
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Image technique:
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Digital capture by Gten
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Date image captured:
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2008-05-21
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Date: added:
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2009-03
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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