Descriptive Information

Title

كتاب حياة الحيوان / تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العامل العلامة وحيد دهره وفريد عصره بقية المجتهدين لسان المتكلمين سيدي كمال الدين محمد الدميري

Transliterated Title

Kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-ʻallāmah waḥīd dahrihi wa-farīd ʻaṣrihi baqiyat al-mujtahidīn lisān al-mutakallimīn Sayiidī Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Damīrī.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 580H

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcw6634f261

Publisher

[1438]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1438

Format

Manuscript

Extent

278 leaves: paper ; 261 x 178 (185 x 132) mm. bound to 261 x 180 mm.

Provenance

Four reading statements on fol. 1b, signed ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad, dated Rajab 1176; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Saʻīd Yāsīn; Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Shirābātī, dated 1103 H.; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥamuwaynī(?), dated 1228? H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.

Four reading statements on fol. 1b, signed ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad, dated Rajab 1176; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Saʻīd YāSīn(?) ; Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-SHRBātī, dated 1103 H.; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir al-ḤMū--nī(?), dated 1228? H. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1067

Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 172/1

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 171

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (fol. 2a).

Fol. 1 is a later addition on European glazed paper, with several inscriptions, including prayers, a tradition transmitted from ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib on women, two short excerpts attributed to Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Dhahabī, relating events in Damascus in 646 H. and 693 H. Several inscriptions onf ol. 2a, on mentioning the date 1074 H. After the colophon, on fol. 277a, excerpt from Abū Hurayrah on the consolation in the afterlife of parents who lost children. Inscriptions on fol. 278a-b, including the mention of the date of birth of ʻAbd al-Muḥsin Ibn al-Ḥājj Darwīsh, born on Saturday 26 Shaʻbān 1149 [1736]. Title on the lower edge of text block (hardly legible).

Collation: Paper ; fol. 277 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.

Layout: 29 lines per page.

Description: Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red ; dark cream paper with pulp and laid lines visible ; one leaf missing between fol. 8 and 9.

Origin: Copy completed by Yūsuf Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Yūsuf al-Ḥanafī, known as al-Ḥafīnī (Hitti reads Jafnī) on 12? Rabīʻ al-Awwal 842 [Sept. 1438] (colophon, fol. 276b, followed by a note by the copyist explaining the change of script).

Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرف نوع الانسان بالاصغرين القلب واللسان ... وبعد فهذا كتاب لم يسالني احد تصنيفه ولا كلفت القريحة تاليفه

Explicit: ومن هاهنا قيل لعلى كرم الله وجهه امير النحل هذا ما انتهى اليه الغرض مما يحصل فى هذا الشان الاكتفا وختم بملك النحل الذى استخرج الله من لعابه الشمع والعسل وجعل احدهما اضيآ والاخر شفآ وابتدا بملك الوحوش الذي منه الشجاعة تقنفى وحسبنا الله تعالي وكفي والحمد لله على التمام والصلاة والسلام على سيد الانام وعلى اله وصحبه الكرام والحمد لله رب العالمين

Binding Note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards. Blind-stamped mandorla. Blue paper pastedowns. Edges and spine repaired.

Discovery Information

Subject

Zoology—Islamic empire—14th century

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Blind tooled bindings

Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count

564

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f6e0ce35-a765-417e-bbbc-861ffd022c63/manifest

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