Title
[Kitāb al-ḥayawān]
By
Damīrī, Muḥammad Ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405
, Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá
Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942
, former owner
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
[between 1550 and 1650]
Notes
Manuscript. codex.
Beginning and end missing, name of the author and composition date are not known.
Zoological treatise, with descriptions of animals arranged in alphabetical order.
25 lines per page, Persian naskh/ nasta'alīq in black ink with use of red. Laid oriental paper, Catchwords on the verso of each leaf.
Rubricated, some marginal notes, lacunae caused by repairs.
Badly wormed; some leaves are restored.
Most likely copied at the end of XVI or beginning or XVII centuries,
Most likely the text is extracted from Damīri'̄s Kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā.
In Arabic.
Gacek, Adam. Arabic manuscripts in the libraries of the McGill University, | 101
Subjects
15th century
,
Islamic Empire
,
Manuscripts, Arabic
,
Montréal
,
Pre-Linnean works
,
Québec
,
Québec (Province)
,
Science, Medieval
,
Zoology
Language
Arabic
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