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كتاب حيوة الحيوان وطباعه وخواصه ومنافع ما في اعضائه مما صنّفه الحكماء
Kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān wa-ṭabāʻihi wa-khawāṣṣihi wa-manāfiʻ mā fī aʻḍāʼihi mimmā ṣannafahu al-ḥukamāʼ.
Author
Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Jibrāʼīl
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ابن بختيشوع، عبيد الله بن جبرائيل
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Uniform title
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[13--?]
Description
185 leaves : paper ; 247 x 188 (198 x 140 mm.). bound to 257 x 198 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 203B
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Subject(s)
Materia medica, Animal
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Early works to 1800
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Zoology
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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Summary note
Treatise on zoology and the medical and magical properties of the various parts of the bodies of animals.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
The word "ḥayāh" in the title is added above the "bạ̄ʼ" of "kitāb".
11 lines per page. Written in large naskh using black ink, with red or larger script in black for entries. Thick glazed paper, with vertical laid lines visible. The pages have been frame-ruled (10 mm., the copyist writing on every other line). The text is entirely vocalized. Some final letters of a line are placed in the margin, with a space between the end of the line and these letters. Very few notes on the margins. A few catchwords (originally at the end of each quire?). These show that some leaves are missing or misplaced (see between fol. 70b and 71a, 155b and 156a). Traces of numbering of the quires in Arabic ordinals on some leaves, mostly cut off by the trimming of the leaves (see fol. 17a, 24a, 32a, 95a, 107a, 119a). Inscriptions and ownership statements on fol. 1a. The top and fore edges of the text block are decorated with large red dots. Modern pagination in pencil using Western numerals. The paper has been trimmed so that part of the marginalia is lost (see fol. 81a).
Fol. 184 and 185 are damaged so that part of the text is lost and colophon can not be read.
According to Ph. Hitti, this ms. dates probably from the 14th cent.
Opening rubric (after caption, fol. 1b): فاول ما نبداء بالانسان
Incipit (fol. 1b): نقولُ إنّ الإنسان أعدل الحيوان مزاجاً وأكمله فعالاً وألطفه حسّاً وأنفذه رأياً
Explicit (fol. 185a): علم الأدوية والداواة واذ قد بان بما أوردناه هاهنا امتناع حصر الكل واتضح [...] ومما أهملنا فلنختم الكتاب ونرجو ان نكون قد بلغنا ال
Binding note
Brown leather over pasteboards, with four sewing stations. The upper and lower covers have a central blind-stamped cross pattern (central roundel and four flowers on stems) encompassed in a lozenge formed of two lines connected to the outer frame. The later is formed of two fillets, with a diagonal flower-on-stem motif in each inner corner. Modern pastedowns. The binding has been repaired. See Preservation unit note attached to ms.
Provenance
Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beyrut 1925.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll. 1065
Ullmann, M. Natur und Geheimwissenschaften, p. 28
Other title(s)
Kitāb al-ḥayawān wa-ṭabāʻihi wa-khawāṣṣihi wa-manāfiʻ mā fī aʻḍāʼihi mimmā ṣannafahu al-ḥukamāʼ
كتاب الحيوان وطباعه وخواصه ومنافع ما في اعضائه مما صنّفه الحكماء
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān wa-ṭabāʻihi wa-khawāṣṣihi wa-manāfiʻ mā fī aʻḍāʼihi mimmā ṣannafahu al-ḥukamāʼ
حيوة الحيوان وطباعه وخواصه ومنافع ما في اعضائه مما صنّفه الحكماء
كتاب طبائع الحيوان وخواصه ال[---] لعبيد الله بن جبريل بن عبيد الله بن بختيشوع
Title from title page
Kitāb ṭabāʼiʻ al-ḥayawān wa-khawāṣṣihi al-[---] li-ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Jibrīl ibn ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Bakhtīshūʻ
OCLC
70680836
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