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