360 Sta7'-ShoiDers of Former Times. 



1122. Indictione decimaquinta Stellas innumerabiles visse sunt 

 cadere per totimi orbem pridie .... Aprilis hora matutina. — 

 Chron. Fossce Novce, in Muratori, Rer. It. iScr. t. vii, p. 868. 



(28.) A. D. 1199. "At the beginning of the year [596 of the 

 Hegira, commencing Oct. 22, 1199] the stars were seen coursing 

 through the heavens, &c." See quotation from Abd-allatif s Ac- 

 count of Egypt, under No. (17.) 



(29.) A. D. 1202. In the year 599, on the night preceding 

 Sunday the last day of the month Moharrem, [October 19, A. D. 

 1202,] the stars rushed across the heavens from east to west, and 

 glided to the right and left, like grasshoppers in a field. This 

 continued until dawn. The inhabitants cried out with terror, 

 and fervently implored the mercy of the Most High. A similar 

 occurrence happened in the year of the holy mission of the Proph- 

 et, [A. D. 611,] as well as in the year 241, [A. D. 855.] 



" En Pan 599, dans la nuit dn dimanche, dans le dernier jour 

 du Muharrem, les etoiles s'elancerent au ciel dans une direction 

 de I'est a I'ouest, et s'echapperent ca et la tant a droite qu'a 

 gauche, comme des sauterelles sur un champ. Ceci durajasqn'a 

 I'aurore. Les hommes jeterent des cris d'epouvante et implore- 

 rent a grand cris la misericorde du Tres-Haut. La meme chcyse, 

 au reste, avait eu lieu dans Panneede la sainte mission du Proph- 

 ete, ainsi que dans Pannee 241." — Soyii,ty''s Hist, of Cairo, foi. 

 342, quoted by M. Fraehn, (as above.) First cited in part by Von 

 Hammer, Comptes Ren. Acad. Sci. 1837, I, 294. 



" Au commencement de Pan 599 on vit a Bagdad les etoiles 

 tomber ga et la, et comme des sauterelles s'elancer d'un lieu dans 

 un autre. Cela dura jusqu'a I'aurore. Les hommes pousserent 

 des cris et implorerent par des prieres le Dieu tout puissant," — 

 Scheby, in T. Duwel el-Islam. Cod. Acad. Sci. No. 254. Ci- 

 ted by 31. Fraehn. 



'■'• Dans Pannee 599 on vit un mouvement d'oscillation des 

 etoiles pendant toute la nuit du dernier [jour] de Muharrem." — 

 Hoddschy Chalfa, Chronological Tables. Cited by M. Fraehn. 

 L' Institute No. 252. 



(30.) A. D. 1243, July 26. "In this year, on the 7th of the 

 Kalends of August, the night was most serene and the air ex- 

 ceedujgiy pure, so that the milky way was as manifest as in the 

 clearest winter night, although the moon was in her eighth day. 

 And to our surprise, stars were seen falling from heaven, swiftly 



