Kitāb al-mawālīd
Scorpio

25v Scorpio	26v Scorpio	27v Scorpio
Title : Book of nativities, attributed to Abu Maʿschar Author of text: Abū Maʿšar al-Balḥī, Ğaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar (0805?-0886). Publication Date : 1300 Subject: Astrology Type: manuscript Language: Arabic Format: Many coloured drawings, the first four represent Satan and other demons. - Paper. - 37 sheets. - Height, 36 inches; width 26 and a half centimeters. About 27 lines per page. Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Arabe 2583 Description : Kitab al-mawālīd Description: The drawings show the figures of the zodiac signs, the phases of the moon personified, and other bizarre pictures. The first pages are missing. The last two pages, more modern than the rest of the ms., are dated to the year 700 AH (1300 AD).		Referenced on p17, The Mamluks - 1250-1517 by David Nicolle: This Arabic treatise on astrology by Abu Ma'shar al Balkhi may have been made in mid-14th-century Iraq or in the Mamluk Sultanate. The equipment illustrated is likely to have been common to both sides. Here 'Mars' slays 'Scorpio' with a large sabre. He has the usual pointed helmet with ear or cheek pieces and a mail aventail over his shoulders. His lamellar jawshan, however, includes sleeves, and appears to open down the side. (Bib. Nat., Ms. Ar. 2583, f.24v, Paris)