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Kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān /
كتاب حياة الحيوان /
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Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405
دميري، محمد بن موسى
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1300-1399
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Manuscripts, Arabic--New Jersey--Princeton
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Zoology--Islamic empire--14th century
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1438
15. century
1438Gregorian
1438Gregorian
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Extent: 278 leaves: paper ; 261 x 178 (185 x 132) mm. bound to 261 x 180 mm.
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Ms. codex.
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Title from title page (fol. 2a).
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Fol. 1 is a later addition on European glazed paper, with several inscriptions, including prayers, a tradition transmitted from ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib on women, two short excerpts attributed to Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Dhahabī, relating events in Damascus in 646 H. and 693 H. Several inscriptions onf ol. 2a, on mentioning the date 1074 H. After the colophon, on fol. 277a, excerpt from Abu...
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Collation: Paper ; fol. 277 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
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Layout: 29 lines per page.
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Description: Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red ; dark cream paper with pulp and laid lines visible ; one leaf missing between fol. 8 and 9.
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Origin: Copy completed by Yūsuf Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Yūsuf al-Ḥanafī, known as al-Ḥafīnī (Hitti reads Jafnī) on 12? Rabīʻ al-Awwal 842 Sept. 1438 (colophon, fol. 276b, followed by a note by the copyist explaining the change of script).
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Four reading statements on fol. 1b, signed ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad, dated Rajab 1176; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Saʻīd Yāsīn; Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Shirābātī, dated 1103 H.; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥamuwaynī(?), dated 1228? H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.
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Four reading statements on fol. 1b, signed ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad, dated Rajab 1176; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Saʻīd YāSīn(?) ; Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-SHRBātī, dated 1103 H.; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir al-ḤMū--nī(?), dated 1228? H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.
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8 November 2023
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8 November 2023
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