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مقالة تشتمل على فصول من كتاب الحيوان لارسطوا.
Maqālah tashtamilu ʻalá fuṣūl min Kitāb al-ḥayawān li-Arisṭū.
1300-1499
A treatise on animals, made up of sections from Aristotle's Historia animalium.
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- Publisher
- [between 13--? and 14--?]
- People
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- Author
- Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 581H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise on animals, made up of sections from Aristotle's Historia animalium.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- مقالة تشتمل على فصول من كتاب الحيوان لارسطوا.
- Transliterated Title
- Maqālah tashtamilu ʻalá fuṣūl min Kitāb al-ḥayawān li-Arisṭū.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 581H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5q47s0364
- Publisher
- [between 13--? and 14--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1300-1499
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 22 leaves : paper ; 180 x 134 (115 x 85) mm. bound to 180 x 140 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1070.
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 894 (13).
- Published as: Maqāla tashtamilu ʻalā fuṣūl min Kitāb al-ḥayawān li-Arisṭū: (tract comprising excerpts from Aristotle's Book of animals), attributed to Mūsā b. ʻUbaid Allāh al-Qurṭubī al-Isrāʼīlī; edited and translated with introduction, notes and glossary by J. N. Mattock, Cambridge, 1967.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from start of text on fol. 1b (other titles from Hitti and published version, see refs. below).
- Fol. 1a is filled entirely with densly written text, most of it prayer, some of it illegible due to smudging or obliteration close to edges. Short inscriptions in a later hand on fol. 22a-b.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 22 ; catchwords ; foliation using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 15 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; glazed dark cream paper with prominent pulp.
- Incipit: قال موسي بن عبيد الله القرطبي الاسرايلي هذه مقاله تشتمل علي فصول من كتاب الحيوان لارسطوا
- Explicit: وكلام ارسطوا انما هو بحسب بلاده او ما سمعه ممن يوثق به والله اعلم
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and green and red marbled paper.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 52
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9669bf44-f32c-472d-a93f-8648bba35150/manifest