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The Book of the Life of the Animal / written by Sheikh Imam, the scholar and scholar, Wahid of his time and the unique of his time, the rest of the diligent scholars, the tongue of theologians, Sidi Kamal al-Din Muhammad al-Dumayri, 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. — Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān, animal life
(كتاب حياة الحيوان تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العامل العلامة وحيد دهره وفريد عصره بقية المجتهدين لسان المتكلمين سيدي كمال الدين محمد الدميري )

Title The Book of the Life of the Animal / written by Sheikh Imam, the scholar and scholar, Wahid of his time and the unique of his time, the rest of the diligent scholars, the tongue of theologians, Sidi Kamal al-Din Muhammad al-Dumayri, 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. — Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān, animal life
Title Original كتاب حياة الحيوان تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العامل العلامة وحيد دهره وفريد عصره بقية المجتهدين لسان المتكلمين سيدي كمال الدين محمد الدميري
Author Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405
Author Original Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405, دميري، محمد بن موسى
Publication Date: 1438
Publication Place - [1438]
Subject Zoology—Islamic empire—14th century, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, Blind tooled bindings, Autographs
Type Book
Language ar
Digital Yes
Manuscript Yes
Pages Count 278
Library: Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID 9950820293506421
Record ID dcw6634f261
Library Location Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 580H
Date 1438-01-01T00:00:00Z — 1438
Notes Zoological treatise, with descriptions of animals arranged in alphabetical order. | 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 | Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards. Blind-stamped mandorla. Blue paper pastedowns. Edges and spine repaired. | 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. | Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1067, Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 172/1, Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 171
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The Book of the Life of the Animal / written by Sheikh Imam, the scholar and scholar, Wahid of his time and the unique of his time, the rest of the diligent scholars, the tongue of theologians, Sidi Kamal al-Din Muhammad al-Dumayri, 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. — Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān, animal life

(كتاب حياة الحيوان تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العامل العلامة وحيد دهره وفريد عصره بقية المجتهدين لسان المتكلمين سيدي كمال الدين محمد الدميري )
Author Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405
Author Original Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405, دميري، محمد بن موسى
Publication Date 1438
Publication Place - [1438]
Subject Zoology—Islamic empire—14th century, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, Blind tooled bindings, Autographs
Type Book
Language ar
Digital Yes
Manuscript Yes
Pages Count 278
Library Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID 9950820293506421
Record ID dcw6634f261
Library Location Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 580H
Date 1438-01-01T00:00:00Z — 1438
Notes Zoological treatise, with descriptions of animals arranged in alphabetical order. | 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 | Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards. Blind-stamped mandorla. Blue paper pastedowns. Edges and spine repaired. | 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. | Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1067, Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 172/1, Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 171
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