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Add MS 21102
- Record Id:
- 032-003256385
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003256385
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100027134517.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100030451172.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 21102
- Title:
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Ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān
طبائع الحيوان
Marwazī, Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir
مروزي، شرف الزمان طاهر
- Scope & Content:
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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 f. 13r), the whole of chapters two through four and a portion of chapter 5 (see Stern, 'Some Fragments of Galen's On Dispositions [Περὶ ἠθῶν] in Arabic', Classical Quarterly, new series 6, (1956) pp. 268-69 and note 18).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-2 [defective at beginning]):
عنه يتحرك إلى جهات شتى فيكون ذلك المبدأ هو الخر (؟) من المنى الذي إذا اتحكم وصار نضوه
كان قلبًا فيجب إذن أن يكون أول وعاء يتكون هو وعاء الروح ويكون في أول الحلقة غير محسوس
Ends (f. 209r, lines 14-17 [defective at end]):
... هو غطاء الصدف شبه صدف الفرفير يسمي
أبو خيس وهو طيب الرائحة لأنّ حيوانه يرفع الباردين وأجوده بالوحد في حر القلم (؟ ...)
وقد يوجد ببلاد الهند في المياه القائمة الشعيرة والذي يوتي به من بحر ولزم لونه
(...) البياض دسم وقديري به من من أبواد (؟) ويكون لونه أسود وهو أصغر وكلاهما طيبا
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-003256385
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003256385
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. xxviii+209+iv
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100027134517.0x000001
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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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 180 x 155 mm leaf [150 x 110 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah?; 17-18 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and ocassional punctuation in red; some spaces for rubricated headings left blank
Binding: Eastern binding in red leather with flap; gold-tooled borders but no medallion on boards; doublure of light brown leather with gold-tooled borders
Condition: Waterstains in margins
Marginalia: Occasional marginalia by many hands
Seals: None
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased at Sotheby's, 5 July 1855, lot 247
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 946, pp. 460-61
- Publications:
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Studies and partial editions:
- Iskandar, Albert Z., 'A Doctor's Book on Zoology: al-Marwazī's Ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān (Nature of Animals) Re-assessed', Oriens 27/28 (1981) pp. 266–312
- Marwazī, Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir, Sharaf Al-Zamān Tạ̄hir Marvazī on China, the Turks and India, edited and translated by Vladimir Minorsky (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1942; reprinted as vol. 8 in the series The Muslim world, 1100-1700: Early Sources on Middle East History, Geography and Travel, edited by Hiroyuki Mashita [London: Routledge, 2007])
- Stern, S.M., 'Some Fragments of Galen's On Dispositions (Περὶ ἠθῶν) in Arabic', Classical Quarterly, new series 6, (1956) pp. 91-101, on pp. 93-96 and 98-101
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)