The Book of Natures

Title	The Book of Natures
Publication Date:	1733
Subject	1687 to 1733, Lebanon--Al-Biqāʻ--Baʻlabakk
Type	Book
Language	ara,eng
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Harvard Library
Library Asset ID	LCCN: 2021667652
Record ID	TN_cdi_loca_primary_2021667652
Library Location	ONLINE ACCESS
Date	1733
Notes	Joseph Simon Assemani (1687--1768), known for his catalogs of Oriental manuscripts at the Vatican and his encyclopedic work on Syriac (and Christian Arabic) literature, Bibliotheca Orientalis, is, in the words of the great German Orientalist Georg Graf, "for all time the pride of the Maronite nation." This volume contains, in Garshuni (Arabic language written in Syriac letters), a manuscript of Assemani's philosophical work entitled The Book of Natures (Kitāb al-Ṭabī'īyāt), divided into 30 sections (maqālāt). The work is numbered as pages (not folios), but only the odd numbers are written. This copy of the book was made by a monk named Yuwāṣaf (Joasaph, 1690--1737) of the village of Baskinta in Lebanon, attached to the Monastery of Saints Peter and Marcellinus in Rome.
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The Book of Natures

Publication Date 1733

Subject 1687 to 1733, Lebanon--Al-Biqāʻ--Baʻlabakk

Type Book

Language ara,eng

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Harvard Library

Library Asset ID LCCN: 2021667652

Record ID TN_cdi_loca_primary_2021667652

Library Location ONLINE ACCESS

Date 1733

Notes Joseph Simon Assemani (1687--1768), known for his catalogs of Oriental manuscripts at the Vatican and his encyclopedic work on Syriac (and Christian Arabic) literature, Bibliotheca Orientalis, is, in the words of the great German Orientalist Georg Graf, "for all time the pride of the Maronite nation." This volume contains, in Garshuni (Arabic language written in Syriac letters), a manuscript of Assemani's philosophical work entitled The Book of Natures (Kitāb al-Ṭabī'īyāt), divided into 30 sections (maqālāt). The work is numbered as pages (not folios), but only the odd numbers are written. This copy of the book was made by a monk named Yuwāṣaf (Joasaph, 1690--1737) of the village of Baskinta in Lebanon, attached to the Monastery of Saints Peter and Marcellinus in Rome.

Kaynak Library of Congress Digital Collections: All Content

Başlık The Book of Natures