Dictionaries [IO Islamic 2047] حياة الحيوان

Dictionaries. حياة الحيوان

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2047 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1003 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

1003.

2047. Size 101/2 in. by 61/2 in.; foll. 303. Twenty-five lines in a page.

Kamâl al-dîn Muḥammad b. Mûsa DAMÎRÎ’S (d. A.H. 808) Zoological Dictionary, called حياة الحيوان .

Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iii. 122; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 509 sqq.; Cat. Mus. Brit. 215; and the edition of Bûlâḳ, A.H. 1283.

This is the shorter version, in which part of the poetical quotation, and also the whole digression at the word الاوز , are omitted. The preface is the usual one.

Well written. Somewhat injured by damp. Defects at both ends are supplied by more modern hands, but there is another defect after fol. 208. Fol. 302 Should stand after 298.

Seal of Nuṣrat Jang.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]

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