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Subject Zoology

1. Add MS 5220

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Add MS 5220
Title:
‘Drawings of animals, monsters, skeletons, etc.’ from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The pages are not numbered. The drawings are listed as numbered items in pencil (1928). Folio number refers to the digital foliation. [f. 1] 1. Drawings of fish; pen, ink and wash; signed bottom right ‘HG fecit’; Insc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 drawings)

2. Add MS 7511

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Add MS 7511
Title:
Kitāb fī ma‘rifat ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān al-barrī wa-al-baḥrī كتاب في معرفة طبائع الحيوان البري والبحري Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
This Arabic work on zoology is in fact a compilation of translations of three treatises by Aristotle (384-322 BC). The Arabic text is arranged into 19 books (أقوال), which divide the Aristotelian treatises as follows: Books 1-10 (Historia animalium), Books 11-14 (De partibus animalium), and Book...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th-14th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. iv+232+iii

3. IOR/R/15/5/176

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/176
Title:
File 3/6 Iranian Fisheries.
Scope & Content:
This file documents concerns held by the British that pearl fisheries – both within and beyond the territorial waters of the Arab rulers – might be exploited by foreign parties. Much of the correspondence speculates on the extent of Persia's interest in the pearl fisheries that are not within th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1936-18 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 file (85 folios)

4. Or 2784

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Or 2784
Title:
Kitāb na‘t al-ḥayawān كتاب نعت الحيوان
Scope & Content:
Bestiary describing the characteristics and medical uses of a large number of animals. The anonymous compiler of the work (see f. 95r) claims it is based on writings by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس; d. 322 BC) and Abū Sa‘īd ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Jibrā’īl ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Bakhtīshū‘ ibn Jibrā’īl ibn Bakh...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+258+iii