Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 203B

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DS ID:

DS29350

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 203B

Title:

Kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān wa-ṭabāʻihi wa-khawāṣṣihi wa-manāfiʻ mā fī aʻḍāʼihi mimmā ṣannafahu al-ḥukamāʼ / كتاب حيوة الحيوان وطباعه وخواصه ومنافع ما في اعضائه مما صنّفه الحكماء

Author:

Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Jibrāʼīl / ابن بختيشوع، عبيد الله بن جبرائيل

Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu WIKIDATA

Date:

13--?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 185 leaves : paper ; 247 x 188 (198 x 140 mm.). bound to 257 x 198 mm.

Note:

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...
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.
Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beyrut 1925.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Fourteenth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Materia medica, Animal

Early works

Zoology

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9948036903506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ba774692-1d5f-4dd8-875f-4210eafea5a5/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University