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A Jerusalem Christian Treatise on Astrology is an English translation of the first part of an Arabic manuscript on astrology, the original title and author of which are unknown. The translation is by Gladys Dickson, a British orientalist and explorer of Ottoman Palestine. Dickson obtained access to the manuscript from its unnamed owner, “a certain Arab living in Jerusalem.” She translated the original Arabic title of the manuscript as “The Book of Compilation.” Some of the translation of the document is incomplete owing to her unfamiliarity with some signs, and ...