The Book of the Zodiac (Classical Mandaic: ࡎࡐࡀࡓ ࡌࡀࡋࡅࡀࡔࡉࡀ, romanized: Sfar Malwašia; Modern Mandaic: Asfar Malwāši[1]) is a Mandaean text.
[6] Buckley has also located a privately held copy of the Book of the Zodiac dating from 1919, which belonged to Lamea Abbas Amara in San Diego.
[7] There is also a manuscript of the Book of the Zodiac from 1789 CE that is currently held at the Bibliothèque National in Paris, which was used by Drower and may have also been used by Nicolas Siouffi.
[6] Drower's manuscript (DC 31) consists of 289 pages in Mandaic.
There are 20 individual books or sections, which are:[6]: 44–48 There is also an appendix (labeled as Part II in Drower's text) that discusses omens, predictions, remedies, eclipses, and other topics.