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Add MS 23417
- Record Id:
- 032-003256901
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003256901
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100027765088.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100030444585.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 23417
- Title:
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al-Jamharah fī ‘ilm al-bayzarah الجمهرة في علم البيزرة
Asadī, ‘Īsá ibn ‘Alī أسدي، عيسى بن علي
- Scope & Content:
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General manual on hunting with falcons, dogs and other animals by Abū al-Rūḥ ʿIsá ibn ‘Alī al-Asadī al-Baghdādī (أبو الروح عيسى بن علي الأسدي البغدادي, fl. 1150-70). The work was divided into two parts (جزءان), the first on the methods and techniques of hunting, and the second on the care and treatment of animals. This copy is defective at the beginning and the end, and contains only Part Two of the work. For this reason, the incorrect title al-Bayṭarah li-l-wuḥūsh (البيطرة للوحوش, Veterinary Medicine for Wild Animals) is found on f. 1r and in the margin of f. 2r.
A list of the chapters (أبوب) of Part Two and their titles appears on ff. 5v-12r.
Begins (f. 2r, lines 1-3, defective at beginning):
قال بعض الحكماء لولده لا تطمع في ينل معالي الأمور بالتواني بلوغ
العلوم براحة البدن ولا في ال مع الكبر ولا
في حسن الثناء مع الصحة ...
Ends (f. 184, lines 14-17, defective at end):
... وجعل الطار عليه وضرب في جوانبه الأربعة أربعة
أوتار وينبغي أن يجعل الطريق جميعًا مشددة من تلك الأرض طول
مقدار رمية السهم وإن كان أطول كان ذلك أوفى وأرجي لكثرة
الصيد ثم يجعل المحاذ على الجانب الذي فيه الخزرة أيضًا خاليًا
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003256901
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003256901
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iv+184+v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100027765088.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Western laid paper; Tre lune watermark visible towards guttern on many folios
Dimensions: 209 x 150 mm leaf [155 x 98 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah?; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Binding: Red leather case binding with blind-tooled medallion, pendents and borders
Condition: Waterstains, offsetting and peculiar migration of ink.
Marginalia: Very few, but see dated owner's inscription on f. 32r
Seals: None
- Custodial History:
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- Mullā Ibrāhīm [ibn ...] Ḥusayn, secretary of the Nāḥīyah (Ottoman administrative sub-unit) of [illegible] (ملّا ابراهيم [بن ...] حسين كاتب ناحية اهمالـ[؟ ...]), his inscription dated 4 (?) Rajab 1168/16 April 1755 (f. 32r)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Mrs Taylor, widow of Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43), 14 April 1860
- 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 1367, pp. 634-35
- Publications:
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Editions and translations of extracts:
- Phillot, D. C., and R. F. Azoo, 'Some Birds and Other Animals that have been Metamorphosed [Being an Extract from the Kitābu'l-Jamharah fi ‘ilmi'l-Bazyarah, an Arabic Manuscript, no. 865, in the Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal]', in Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 3.2 (1907), 139-43
- Phillot, D. C., and R. F. Azoo, 'The Birds' Complaint before Solomon: Being an Extract with a Translation from the Kitābu 'l-Jamharah fi ‘ilmi 'l-Bazyarah', in Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 3.3 (1907), 173-78
- Phillot, D. C., and R. F. Azoo, 'Things which the Owner of Hawks Should Avoid, Being an Extract with a Translation from the Kitābu 'l-Jamharah fi ‘Ilmi'l-Bazyarah', in Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 3.6 (1907), 401-3
- Phillot, D. C., and R. F. Azoo, 'On Hunting Dogs, Being an Extract with a Translation from the Kitābu 'l-Jamharah fi ‘ilmi 'l-Bazyarah', in Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 3.9 (1907), 599-600
Study:
- Shihab al-Sarraf, 'Mamluk Furūsīyah Literature and Its Antecedents', Mamlūk Studies Review 8.1 (2004), pp. 141-20, on pp. 189-90
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 377
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)