Hādhā al-kitāb al-musammā bi-ḥayāt al-ḥayawān

Title Variants

Alternative: Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān

By

Damīrī, Muḥammad Ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405
Al-Munavvarī, Al-Ḥājj Mullā Muḥammad B. Muḥammad Ḥasan.
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Iran, Kārkhānah-yi 'Alī Qulī khān, 1285 [1868]

Edition

[variant edition]

Notes

Lithograph.

The book was published in Tehran and dedicated to the Qājār king Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh (d. 1896). Dedication note appears on the first page of each volume accompanied by supplication and honorific title.

No pagination, catchwords, v.1 includes pages 1- 266; v.2 pages 267-564.

35 lines per page, includes marginal notes, images and glosses.

Text pages with straight borders; each volume includes headpieces; Persian naskh script.

Many images of animals and birds, and illustrations are included in the glosses.

Wood, Casey A . Vertebrate Zoology; | 309 (variant).

In Arabic

Subjects

ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt , approximately 1203-1283 , Criticism, Textual , Early works , Manuscripts, Arabic , Montréal , Pre-Linnean works , Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, , Québec (Province) , Science, Medieval , Zoology

Language

Arabic