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- Record Id:
- 032-002430659
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- 032-002430659
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000006638.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023372298.0x000002
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- Add MS 7511
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Kitāb fī ma‘rifat ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān al-barrī wa-al-baḥrī كتاب في معرفة طبائع الحيوان البري والبحري
Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
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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 Books 15-19 (De generatione animalium).The translation is traditionally supposed to be the work of Yaḥyá ibn Bitrīq (AD 1129-1203 or 4), but this attribution has not been confirmed.
Of the text’s 19 books, 12 are preserved here in their entirety (Books 1, 2 and 10-19), and another two are partially preserved (Books 3 and 9), while five books are missing (Books 4-8; approximately half the Historia animalium):
- القول الأول (‘Book 1’; ff. 1v-19r);
- القول الثاني (‘Book 2’; ff. 19r-32v);
- القول الثالث (‘Book 3’; ff. 32v-??);
- القول التاسع (‘Book 9’; ff. ??-61r);
- القول العاشر (‘Book 10’; ff. 61r-67v);
- القول الحادي عشر (‘Book 11’; ff. 67v-79v);
- القول الثاني عشر (‘Book 12’; ff. 79v-101r);
- القول الثالث عشر (‘Book 13’; ff. 101r-107v);
- القول الرابع عشر (‘Book 14’; ff. 107r-133v);
- القول الخامس عشر (‘Book 15’; ff. 133v-153v);
- القول السادس عشر (‘Book 16’; ff. 153v-177v);
- القول السابع عشر (‘Book 17’; ff. 177v-198r);
- القول الثامن عشر (‘Book 18’; ff. 198r-219v);
- القول التاسع عشر (‘Book 19’; ff. 219v-231v).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-14):
ترجمة القول الأول من الكتاب الذي وضع أرسطاطاليس
الفيلسوف في معرفة طبائع الحيوان البري والبحري
وفيه صفة مزاوجة ومولد جميع الحيوان
وصفة ما يكون منه من غير جماع مع
تصنيف أعضائها الباطنة والظاهرة وتلخيص أفعالها
وأعمالها ومنافعها ومضارها و كيف يضاد ما يضاد منها
وفي أي الأماكن يكون ومتى ينتقل من موضع إلى
موضع لحال حضور الصيف والشتاء ومن ماذا
معاش كل واحد من الحيوان أعني ما كان من صنف
الطير والسباع وسمك البحر وما يأوي فيه من السباع أيضًا
ابتداء القول الأول
إن بعض أجزاء أجساد الحيوان تسمى غير مركبة وهي الأجزاء التي تجزأ في أجزاء
يشبه بعضها بعضًا ...
Ends (f. 231v, lines 10-13):
... فقد ذكرنا علة نبات
الأسنان ولماذا يقع بعضها وينبت أيضًا بعد وقوعه وبعضها لا يقع ويقول
كلي لأي علة تكون الأسنان وقد ذكرنا علل سائر الآفات التي تعرض ليس من
الاضطرار بل لحال شيء ولحال العلة المحركة
Colophon (f. 231v, lines 14-17):
تم تفسير القول اتاسع عشر من كتاب أرسطاطاليس
الفيلسوف في طبائع الحيوان بعون الله وتوفيقه
وتم الكتاب والحمد لله دائمًا
وصلى الله على محمد وآله وسلم كثيرًا
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002430659
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. iv+232+iii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000006638.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 13th-14th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 173 x 103 mm leaf [129 x 71 mm written]
Foliation: Arabic Indic foliation in black ink in upper left-hand corners of versos; British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh with many maghribī features
Ink: Black
Binding: Ottoman (?) binding in red leather with blind-tooled medallion and pendants containing flowers; binding restored with western spine added
Condition: Minor water damage mostly to head and tail, worse towards beginning of volume
Marginalia: Occasional marginal and interlinear corrections and notes
Seals: Found on ff. 1r, 2r, 231r, 231v and 232r
- Custodial History:
- There are four or five partially legible owners’ inscriptions on f. 1r, one of which is dated 1152 AH/AD 1739-40.
- Finding Aids:
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- Cureton, William, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71), p. 215, Item 437
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Study:
- Filius, Lou, 'The Arabic Transmission of the Historia Animalium of Aristotle', in Arnoud Vrolijk and Jan P. Hogendijk eds., O ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 25-33.
Editions:
- Aristotle, Ṭibā’ al-ḥayawān tarjamat Yuḥanna ibn al-Biṭrīq, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī, ed., (Kuwait: Wakālat al-Maṭbūʻāt, 1977)
- Aristotle, Ajzā’ al-ḥayawān tarjamat Yūḥannā ibn al-Biṭrīq (Aristotelis De partibus animalium), ʻAbd ʾal-Raḥmān Badawī, ed., (Kuwait: Wakālat al-maṭbūʻāt, 1977)
- Aristotle, Fī kawn al-ḥayawān: al-maqālāt 15-19 min Kitāb al-hayawān. Tarjama min al-yunānīyah ila al-arabīyah nusibat ilā Yaḥyá ibn al-Biṭrīq (Generation of Animals: The Arabic translation commonly ascribed to Yaḥyá ibn al-Biṭrīq), Jan Brugman and Hendrik Joan Drossaart Lulofs, eds (Leiden: Brill, 1971)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)