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1. Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif, [17--?] and شمس المعارف ولطائف العوارف، [17--?]

Creator:: Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225
بوني، أحمد بن علي، -1225
Call Number:: Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 93
Image Count:: 700
Abstract:: Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif (also called "Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá" to distinguish it from the author's two other smaller treatises: al-wusṭa "the middle one" and al-ṣughrá "the little one"), a treatise on magic, alchemy, astrology, devination, Islamic occultism, the name of God and the magical use of the Arabic alphabet by Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī (d. 1225), a famous sufi scholar from the city of Būnah (Bône) now ʻAnnābah (Annaba, Algeria), died in Cairo, Egypt. Name of copyist and place of copying are not mentioned; the date of copying is mentioned enigmatically in the 12th century H (18th century M).
Alternative Title:: Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá and شمس المعارف الكبرى
Description:: In Arabic., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā Muḥammad wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī aḥāṭa bi-kull shayʼ ʻilman wa-ʻallam al-insān mā lam yaʻlam wa-ashhadu an lā ilāh illā Allāh waḥdah lā sharīka lah wa-ashhadu anna Muḥammadan rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam, shahida Allāh an lā ilāh illā huwa shahādat azal, fa-min nūr hādhihi al-shahādah ightaraf al-muṣṭafūn ʻilman, fa-ifham dhālika. Wa-al-tartīb al-abadī fī al-shahādatayn al-muttaṣilatayn bi-al-malāʼikah al-kirām wa-ulī al-ʻilm fa-hādhihi shahādat al-abad, fa-man fahima sirra hātayn al-shahādatayn shāhada al-malakūtayn ...", 20 x 29 cm; written surface: 14 x 22 cm, ca. 30 lines per page., Bound., In fair naskh script, on yellowish paper; keywords and markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; magic squares and illustrations; text within double red frames; catchwords., Includes table of contents at the beginning of the manuscript: "al-Faṣl al-awwal fī al-ḥurūf al-muʻjamah wa-mā yatarattabu fīhā min al-asrār wa-al-iḍmārāt. al-Faṣl al-thānī fī al-kasr wa-al-basṭ wa-tartīb al-aʻmāl min al-awqāt wa-al-sāʻāt. al-Faṣl al-thālith fī aḥkām manāzil al-qamar al-thamāniyah wa-ʻishrīn al-falakīyah ...", and Colophon: "... Wa-Allāh asʼalu an yulhima li-fahm mā ramaznāh wa-kashf mā satarnāh akh ṣadīq wa-khill ḥaqq [i.e. akhan ṣadīqan wa-khillan ḥaqqan]. Wa-fī hādhā al-qadr kifāyah li-man waffaqahu Allāh taʻālá wa-lā ḥawla wa-lā qūwata illā billāh al-ʻAlī al-ʻAẓīm wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn wa-jamīʻ al-anbiyāʼ wa-al-mursalīn wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. al-Tārīkh: Fī niṣf awwal min khums thālith min thulth awwal min niṣf thānī min suds thālith min niṣf awwal min khums thānī min ʻushr awwal min qarn thānī ʻashar min hijrat khayr al-bashar ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallama taslīman kathīran. Tamma wa-kamula."
Subject (Name):: Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225.
Subject (Topic):: Alchemy, Arabic alphabet, Astrology, Divination, God (Islam), Name, Islamic magic, Islamic occultism, and Magic
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif, [17--?], شمس المعارف ولطائف العوارف، [17--?]

2. Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá : manuscript and شمس المعارف الكبرى : مخطوطة

Creator:: Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225
بوني، أحمد بن علي، -1225
Published / Created:: 1874.
Call Number:: Arabic MSS suppl. 759
Image Count:: 528
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá (Larger Sun of knowledge), by Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī (died 1225), a well-known Ṣufī scholar from the city of Būnah (Bône), now ʻAnnābah (Annaba, Algeria), who died in Cairo. This work is designated "al-kubrá" (the larger) to distinguish it from the author's two other treatises: "al-wusṭá"́ (the middle) and "al-ṣughrá" (the smaller). It is also listed in the text under the title "Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif" (Sun of knowledge and intricacies of diviners), a treatise on magic, alchemy, astrology, divination, Islamic occultism, the name of God (including 'al-Asmāʼ al-Ḥusná', the 99 beautiful names of God), the magical use of the Arabic Alphabet, and talismans. The present work is a lithographed edition, printed from an original copy from India, in four parts, as follows: al-Juzʼ al-awwal (Part one: Pages 1-132), al-Juzʼ al-thānī (Part two: pages 1-116), al-Juzʼ al-thālith (Part three: pages 1-124), al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ (Part four: Pages 1-148), followed by an index of contents for the four parts (Pages 1-7). The work was printed on 20 Shawwāl, 1291 of the Hijrah (30 November, 1874). Place and name of the printer not mentioned
Alternative Title:: Shams al-maʻārif wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif and شمس المعارف ولطائف العوارف
Description:: In Arabic., Title from cover., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Shahādat azal, fa-min nūr hādhihi al-shahādah ightarafa al-muṣannifūn ʻilman. Fa-ifham dhālik. Wa-al-tartīb al-abadī fī al-shahādatayn al-muttaṣilatayn bi-al-malāʼikah al-kirām. Wa-awwal al-ʻilm fa-hādhihi shahādat al-abad. Fa-man fahima sirr hātayn al-shahādatayn shāhad al-malakūtayn wa-mā awdaʻāhu bi-sirr al-ittiṣāl bi-al-kashfīyāt ...", Secundo folio: Ammā baʻd, fa-lil-ḥaqq aʻlām., 16.5 x 23.5 cm; written surface: 12 x 20 cm; 31 lines per page., Binding: In green cardboard cover and dark brown paper on the spine., In naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; many illustrations and magic squares; text within double frames; catchwords. At the head of the opening page of each of the four parts is a decorative design., On cover: "Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá", printed in silver., On page 1 of al-Juzʼ al-awwal: "Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá wa-laṭāʼif al-ʻawārif, fī arbaʻat ajzāʼ, lil-Quṭb al-Imām Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Būnī, wa-bi-nihāyat al-arbaʻat kutub, [al-kutub] al-ātiyah: 1. Kitāb Mīzān al-ʻadl fī maqāṣid aḥkām al-raml. 2. Kitāb Fawātiḥ al-raghāʼib fī khuṣūṣīyāt awqāt al-kawākib. 3. Kitāb Zahr al-murūj fī dalāʼil al-burūj. 4. Kitāb Laṭāʼif al-ishārah fī khaṣāʼiṣ al-kawākib al-sayyārah." "Maṭbūʻ ʻalá al-nuskhah al-Hindīyah al-aṣlīyah." These four books are not included in this codex and seem to serve as an advertisement for works to follow., al-Juzʼ al-thānī (Part two), starts with: "al-Faṣl al-khāmis ʻashar. Fī al-shurūṭ al-lāzimah li-baʻḍ dūna baʻḍ fī al-bidāyāt wa-al-nihāyāt.", al-Juzʼ al-thālith (Part three), starts, after al-Basmalah, with: "al-Faṣl al-ḥādī wa-al-ʻishrūn. Fī Asmāʼ Allāh al-Ḥusná, wa-anmāṭihā, wa-mā li-kull namaṭ min al-daʻawāt.", al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ (Part four), starts, after al-Basmalah, with: "al-Faṣl al-thāmin wa-al-thalāthūn. Fī istikhdāmāt al-ḥurūf wa-khalawātihā.", Colophon: "Tamma Kitāb Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá lil-Imām al-Būnī fī ʻishrīn min Shawwāl, sanat 1291 Hijrīyah. Wa-lammā kādat shams ṭabʻihā tabzughu lil-ṭulūʻ arrakhahā baʻḍ al-madmīyīn [al-mādiḥīn] bi-qawlihi, shiʻr [in Ḥisāb al-jummal (Alphabetical reckoninig)]: ... Wa-fīhā ará al-tārīkh jāda bi-qawlihi // yufīdu al-amānī ṭabʻu Shams al-maʻārif. Sanat 1291.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book 'Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá' of al-Imām al-Būnī was completed on 20 Shawwal, 1291 of the Hijrah [30 November, 1874]. When the sun of its printing started to rise, someone praised it and mentioned the date of printing, in verse [using Ḥisāb al-jummal "Alphabetical reckoning"], saying: ... In it I see the date, saying generously: The printing of Shams al-maʻarif satisfies the wishes. The year 1291."
Subject (Name):: Būnī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, -1225.
Subject (Topic):: Alchemy, Arabic alphabet, Astrology, Divination, God (Islam), Name, Islamic magic, Islamic occultism, Lithographed books, Magic, and Talismans
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Shams al-maʻārif al-kubrá : manuscript, شمس المعارف الكبرى : مخطوطة

3. Olympia d⁻omata or An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1687 : being the 3d after bissextile or leap-year, and from the worlds creation, 5636. Wherein is contained the geocentric places of the planets both in longitude and latitude from Astronomia Britannica; as also the lunations, conjunctions and aspects of the planets, the increase, decrease and length of the day and night, the moons rising, southing and setting whereby may be known the exact hour of the night when either the moon or 7 stars are seen. Calculated according to art and referred to the horizon of the ancient and renowned borrough-town of Stamford, whose longitude is 23 deg. 50 minutes, latitude 52 deg. 40 min. fitting all the middle counties of England, and without sensible errour the whole kingdom

Creator:: Wing, John, 1643-1726
Published / Created:: 1687.
Call Number:: 2013 1188
Image Count:: 48
Alternative Title:: Olympia dōmata and Almanack for the year of our Lord God 1687
Description:: BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 7 of 12 titles bound together., Title page and calendar in red and black., First two words of title in Greek characters., and Signatures: A-C⁸.
Publisher:: Printed by John Hayes, printer to the University
Subject (Topic):: Almanacs, English, Ephemerides, and Astrology
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Olympia d⁻omata or An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1687 : being the 3d after bissextile or leap-year, and from the worlds creation, 5636. Wherein is contained the geocentric places of the planets both in longitude and latitude from Astronomia Britannica; as also the lunations, conjunctions and aspects of the planets, the increase, decrease and length of the day and night, the moons rising, southing and setting whereby may be known the exact hour of the night when either the moon or 7 stars are seen. Calculated according to art and referred to the horizon of the ancient and renowned borrough-town of Stamford, whose longitude is 23 deg. 50 minutes, latitude 52 deg. 40 min. fitting all the middle counties of England, and without sensible errour the whole kingdom

4. An astrological judgment upon the nativity of a gentleman born in the latitude of 51 degr. and from the meridian of London to the westward 13 min, late 17th century

Creator:: Williams, Phillip
Published / Created:: late 17th century
Call Number:: Osborn b309
Image Count:: 59
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a complete prognostication for someone born in the Haywards Heath region of Sussex, including his personality; the length of his life; his financial situation; his relationship to his father; the number of his marriages; satisfaction with his servants; the behavior of his "pretended friends"; and the kind of travel he will do. For example, the manuscript declares, "The Native should go many voyages or long journies...the chief end of his travelling should be to gain learning and honor; But the Moon and Mare being in opposition to the Ninth Hous, shewe that it should be very unproffitable to him." The volume also includes 7 horoscope drawings.
Description:: Armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron; signature of Michael Lort (1725-90)., Binding: contemporary panelled calf, gilt., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Marbled endpapers., On title page: An Astrological Judgment Upon the Nativity of a Gentleman born in the Latitude of 51 degr. And from the Meridian of London to the Westward 13 min: Astronomically and Astrologically Performed by Phillip Williams, Student in Astrology., and Pages 46-50 blank, not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):: Sussex (England)
Subject (Name):: Williams, Phillip
Subject (Topic):: Astrology, Divination, Fortune-telling, Horoscopes, and Planets
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An astrological judgment upon the nativity of a gentleman born in the latitude of 51 degr. and from the meridian of London to the westward 13 min, late 17th century

5. Calendarium astrologium: or, An almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1687 : comprehending the general state of the year, with the sign each day therein; eclipses, high water, terms, and their returns, sun-rising, &c. Together with rules for physick and husbandry and sundry other useful observations. Also a description of the most eminent rodes in England, from town to town, and the certain time of any mart, or fair, happening in any of them

Creator:: Trigge, Thomas
Published / Created:: 1687.
Call Number:: 2013 1188
Image Count:: 40
Alternative Title:: Calendarium astrologicum and Almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1687
Description:: BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 10 of 12 titles bound together., Title page and calendar in red and black., and Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁴.
Publisher:: Printed by B. Griffin for the Company of Stationers
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Markets, Astrology, Ephemerides, and Almanacs, English
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendarium astrologium: or, An almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1687 : comprehending the general state of the year, with the sign each day therein; eclipses, high water, terms, and their returns, sun-rising, &c. Together with rules for physick and husbandry and sundry other useful observations. Also a description of the most eminent rodes in England, from town to town, and the certain time of any mart, or fair, happening in any of them

6. Angelus Britannicus : an ephemeris for the year of our redemption 1687 : being 3d after bissextile or leap year : since the creation of the world, 5636, the death of our saviour, 1654, the conquest of this nation, 621, the restauration of K. Ch. II, 27, the last great plague, 22, the burning of London, 21, the last great frost, 3, the death of K. Charles II, 2, yea[rs] : amplified with observations from the sun's ingress into Aries, and the other cardinal points, with an account of the eclipses, conjunctions of the planets, and other configurations of the heavenly bodies : calculated for the meridian of the famous city of London, where the Pole Artick is elevated above the horizon 51 degr. 32 min., but may indifferently serve for England, Scotland, and Ireland

Creator:: Tanner, John, approximately 1636-1715
Published / Created:: 1687.
Call Number:: 2013 1188
Image Count:: 48
Alternative Title:: Ephemeris for the year of our redemption 1687
Description:: BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 5 of 12 titles bound together., The portion of the title "the creation of the world, 5636 ... the death of K. Charles II, 2" is enclosed within brackets., Signatures: A-C⁸., and Annual almanac which ran 1657-1715; 6 lines of verse precede most of the monthly tables; advertisements: C6 and C8 versos.
Publisher:: Printed by E. Horton for the Company of Stationers
Subject (Topic):: Almanacs, English, Ephemerides, and Astrology
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Angelus Britannicus : an ephemeris for the year of our redemption 1687 : being 3d after bissextile or leap year : since the creation of the world, 5636, the death of our saviour, 1654, the conquest of this nation, 621, the restauration of K. Ch. II, 27, the last great plague, 22, the burning of London, 21, the last great frost, 3, the death of K. Charles II, 2, yea[rs] : amplified with observations from the sun's ingress into Aries, and the other cardinal points, with an account of the eclipses, conjunctions of the planets, and other configurations of the heavenly bodies : calculated for the meridian of the famous city of London, where the Pole Artick is elevated above the horizon 51 degr. 32 min., but may indifferently serve for England, Scotland, and Ireland

7. 1687. Apollo Anglicanus = the English Apollo, assisting all persons in the right understanding of this years revolution, as also of things past, present, and to come : with necessary tables plain and useful. A twofold kalendar, viz. Julian or English, Gregorian or forein computations, more plain and full than any other, with the rising and setting of the sun, the nightly rising and setting of the moon, and also her southing, exactly calculated for every day. Of general use for most men, being the third after bissextile or leap-year : to which is added the moons application to the fixed stars with the calculations of the eclipses : also rules and tables for the measuring of timber, with many other things both pleasant, useful and necessary. Calculated according to art, and fitted to the meridian of Leicester, whose latitude is 52 degrees, 41 minutes exactly fitting all the middle counties of England, and without sensible error the whole kingdom

Creator:: Saunders, Richard, 1613-1675
Published / Created:: 1687.
Call Number:: 2013 1188
Image Count:: 48
Alternative Title:: Apollo Anglicanus, English Apollo, and Saunder. 1687. The second part
Description:: BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 8 of 12 titles bound together., "Saunder. 1687. The second part" (caption title) has separate register., Signatures: A-B⁸ ²A⁸., Title page and calendar in red and black., and Contains advertisements.
Publisher:: Printed by M. Clark for the Company of Stationers
Subject (Topic):: Almanacs, English, Astrology, and Ephemerides
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 1687. Apollo Anglicanus = the English Apollo, assisting all persons in the right understanding of this years revolution, as also of things past, present, and to come : with necessary tables plain and useful. A twofold kalendar, viz. Julian or English, Gregorian or forein computations, more plain and full than any other, with the rising and setting of the sun, the nightly rising and setting of the moon, and also her southing, exactly calculated for every day. Of general use for most men, being the third after bissextile or leap-year : to which is added the moons application to the fixed stars with the calculations of the eclipses : also rules and tables for the measuring of timber, with many other things both pleasant, useful and necessary. Calculated according to art, and fitted to the meridian of Leicester, whose latitude is 52 degrees, 41 minutes exactly fitting all the middle counties of England, and without sensible error the whole kingdom

8. De sphaera, etc

Creator:: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
Published / Created:: 1526-27.
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 337
Image Count:: 220
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper of Joannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, translated into English and supplemented by Anthony Ascham. With calendar for the years 1529-35; "The Complaynt Off Sanct Cipriane, The Grett Nigromancer," a poem by Anthony Ascham. Includes individual zodiac volvelles with descriptions in Latin (several volvelles attached to the incorrect month).
Description:: In English and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettres et Monogrammes 9890 and Pot 12863., Script: Text written in English secretary script., Numerous explanatory drawings and tables appear throughout the manuscript, including 40 drawings of constellations; nineteen maps, accompanied by tables of longitude and latitude; nine devices that explain the movement of the heavenly bodies. All drawings are carefully drawn in brown ink, tinted with washes of green, yellow, black, brown, pink, and labelled in red or brown ink., Many leaves pasted together, some of which have become unglued. Cropped, resulting in loss of some marginalia., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with central panel and outer border colored dark brown. Pink spattered edges.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic):: Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Calendars, English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Early maps
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De sphaera, etc

9. Isagoge in astrologiam

Creator:: Rollenhagen, Georg, 1542-1609
Published / Created:: 1583-1588.
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 620
Image Count:: 276
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks) of Georg Rollenhagen (1542-1606), Isagoge in astrologiam. This manuscript is apparently the autograph of the Astrologia iudiciaria sive genethliacum reported to have been composed by this German evangelical minister, rector of the Gymnasium at Magdeburg and poet
Description:: In Latin and German., Script: Apparently copied by one hand writing a small Humanistica Cursiva Currens in many different forms, often difficult to decipher. Headings in the same script or in fancy capitals. The passages in German are in Gothica Cursiva Currens., Astrological diagrams, tables and calculations, all like the text of a rapid execution., and Binding: Original half binding of blind-tooled white pigskin decorated with rolls, the covers in an unorthodox way covered with green-blue blind-tooled parchment (?). On the front cover the gold-tooled initials "IMD" and the date "1599". Spine with three raised bands, with the number "10" painted in red in the second compartment. At the top illegible title label.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Rollenhagen, Georg, 1542-1609.
Subject (Topic):: Astrology, German literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Isagoge in astrologiam