Kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā

Title Variants

Uniform: Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā

By

Damīrī, Muḥammad Ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405 , author

Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942 , former owner

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

Ahmadabad, 999 [1591]

Notes

880-04 | Manuscript. codex.

Title from the colophon.

Zoological treatise, with descriptions of animals arranged in alphabetical order.

27 lines per page, Indian naskh in black ink with use of red. Laid oriental paper, Catchwords on the verso of each leaf.

V.1: (BWL W16: 1) 1-478 pages, v.2 (BWL W16: 2) 479-870 pages.

Badly wormed; rule borders; sideheads; folios are laminated, some leaves are restored.

Colophon indicates the composition date of the actual text as Rajab 773 [1372]; fair copy in Sha'bān 805 [1403].

Transcribed in Aḥmadābād, Gujrāt in Laylat al-Mi'rāj (Rajab), 999 [1591]. Copied by 'Abd al-Ḥayy ibn Malik (...?) al-Qārī.

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., | 1067

Gacek, Adam. Arabic manuscripts in the libraries of the McGill University, | 66 /1-2

Brockelmann, C. GAL, | SII, 171

Subjects

14th century , 15th century , approximately 1203-1283 , Criticism, Textual , Islamic Empire , Manuscripts, Arabic , Montréal , Pre-Linnean works , Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, , Québec , Québec (Province) , Science, Medieval , Zoology

Call Number

QL41 D3 1591

Language

Arabic