Details

Subject(s)

• Animals—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Zoology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 581H [Browse]

Related work(s)

Aristotle. Historia animalium. Selections. Arabic [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on animals, made up of sections from Aristotle's Historia animalium.

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.

Language note

In Arabic.

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.

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• مقالة في الحيوان
• Fuṣūl min kitāb al-ḥayawān li-Arisṭū
• فصول من كتاب الحيوان لارسطوا
• Tract comprising excerpts from Aristotle's Book of animals.

Title in Hitti

• Maqālah fī al-ḥayawān

OCLC

174278583

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