f. 1b الحمد لله الذي خلق السماء بقدرته وزيّنها بالکواکب ... وبعد فهذا کتاب مبارك يشتمل علی
مواليد الرجال والنساء ... تاليف ابي معشر البلخي ، معرفة الجمل الصغير لمعرفة طالع
الانسان ... اعلم ان لکل برج ثلاثة وجوه الخ
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f. 65a واذا طلبت حاجة من کبير او صغير تدخل عليها نهار الاربعاء تقضی حاجتها، تمت طوالع النساء
والرجال الخ
The beginninigs in the two manuscripts (this one and MS Sprenger 1878) are quite different.
The titles of the first chapters/sections (القول الاول , see MS Sprenger 1878) are
found here on fols. 3a, 7a, 11a, etc. The second part of the work ( مواليد النساء
, the horoscopes of women) starts on fol. 41b.
The explicit is also different from that in MS Sprenger 1878.
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