Author: Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566 VIAF ID: 173585994 Subject: Islamic Empire--Biography--Early works to 1800
Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the tran...
Treatise on zoology in five chapters (مقالات) by Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī (شرف الزمان طاهر المروزي; fl. 1056-1125). Collation with the two other known copies of this text (British Library, Delhi Arabic 1949 and UCLA, MS Ar. 52) shows that this copy contains a portion of chapter one (ends...