Kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān / (DS2353) (Q13374)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Princeton University (9950820293506421, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 580H, https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9950820293506421)
- Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān
- حياة الحيوان
- كتاب حياة الحيوان /
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| English | Kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān / (DS2353) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Princeton University (9950820293506421, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 580H, https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9950820293506421) |
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8 November 2023
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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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Zoology--Islamic empire--14th century
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Manuscripts, Arabic--New Jersey--Princeton
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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 Abū Hurayrah...
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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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18 April 2025
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