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Or 2784
- Record Id:
- 032-002837156
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002837156
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023556967.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023645401.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 2784
- Title:
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Kitāb na‘t al-ḥayawān كتاب نعت الحيوان
- Scope & Content:
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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 Bakhtīshū‘ ibn Jūrjis ibn Jibrā’īl (أبو سعيد عبيد الله بن جبرائيل بن عبيد الله بن بختيشوع بن جبرائيل بن بختيشوع بن جورجس بن جبرائيل; d. ca 1058).
The text contains eighty-six illustrations of very high artistic quality. The present order of the folios is faulty, and the text is defective at the beginning and end. A full reconstruction of their order along with a description of all illustrations can be found in Contadini, A World of Beasts (Leiden: Brill, 2011) pp. 25-37 and 167-69.
Begins (ff. 4v, line 2-5r, line 1):
نعت الحجل
وهو الفتح
إن من عجائب الحجل أنه إذا
أصابت بيضه أفة ...
Ends (f. 258v, lines 7-9):
... وإن
جفّف علق النهر وسحق مع عسل وطُلي به الذكر
وقت الجماع وجدت المرأة لذة عظيمة
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002837156
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002837156
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+258+iii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023556967.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 235 x 160 mm leaf [190 x 110 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 9 lines per page; vertical spacing 6 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: Illustrated (ff. 2v-4r, 96r and 101v) and textual (ff. 4v-5r) frontispieces with gold borders
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Many leaves damaged and repaired
Marginalia: Occasional marginal notes in Arabic and Persian
Seals: F. 1r and 257v
- Custodial History:
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- Muḥammad Ḥasan walad Ḥājjī ‘Abd Allāh (محمد حسن ولد حجي عبد الله): his inscription (in Persian), dated Sha‘bān 1272/April-May 1856 (f. 1r);
- Muḥammad Riḍā (محمد رضا): his seal, dated 1228/1813 (f. 1r);
- Semi-legible seal (f. 257v).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Adolf Tintner of Pera, 14 June 1884
- Administrative Context:
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Baghdad?
- Finding Aids:
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Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 778, pp. 531-32
- Publications:
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Study:
Contadini, Anna, A World of Beasts: a thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2011)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)