Details

Subject(s)

• Materia medica, Animal—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Summary note

Leaf from the Manāfiʻ al-ḥayawān, with a miniature depicting two crows, one of which stands on a rock, and a fruiting tree in the background.

Notes

• Ms. leaf.
• Title from heading.
• Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on tan Arabic paper. Text framed in double red lines. Rubrication and catchwords. Heading in large, dark blue Kufic script. Lower outer corner repaired. On verso is a miniature measuring 110 x 96 mm.
• Origin: According to Moghadam, the leaf is from the late 13th century; likely from Iran.

Language note

Persian.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Moghadam, M. E. et al. Garrett collection, no. 197

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

773292244

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