The Book of Natures

Title	The Book of Natures
Publication Date:	1733
Publication Place	- [publisher not identified]
Type	Book
Language	Undetermined
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	1 online resource.
Library:	Library of Congress
Library Asset ID	2021667652
Record ID	22061518
Date	1733
Sample Text	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.
Sınıflandırma	180
Tür	text

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The Book of Natures

Publication Date 1733

Publication Place - [publisher not identified]

Type Book

Language Undetermined

Digital No

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions 1 online resource.

Library Library of Congress

Library Asset ID 2021667652

Record ID 22061518

Date 1733

Sample Text 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.

Sınıflandırma 180

Tür text