Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405 دميري، محمد بن موسى، 1341?-1405
Published / Created:
[17th century?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic S-2
Image Count:
862
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A zoological encyclopedia listing the names of the different animals, birds and insects arranged alphabetically, with anecdotes, poems and folkloric tales, but the most important part of this work is the description of the medicinal properties of the animals and their different organs. It is the most comprehensive zoological work in Arabic and a store-house of folk-lore and popular medicine. The author is Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī (1341?-1405), a Shafiite Egyptian scholar, from Cairo. He worked as a tailor, but then devoted himself to learning and scholarship and became a prominent scholar at al-Azʹhar. He also lived for a while in Mecca and Medina. al-Damīrī finished writing his book in the month of Rajab, 773 H (January/February, 1372). The book is in two versions: long and short. The present manuscript is the long version and according to a recent note on leaf 1a it was copied from a manuscript copied in 805 H (1402/1403). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 17th century
Alternative Title:
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá 880-02 and حياة الحيوان الكبرى 240-02/r
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī sharrafa nawʻ al-insān bi-al-aṣgharayn al-qalb wa-al-lisān wa-faḍḍalahu ʻalá sāyir al-ḥayawān bi-niʻmatay al-manṭiq wa-al-bayān wa-rajjaḥahu bi-al-ʻaql alladhī wazan bi-hi qaḍāyā al-qiyās fī aḥsan mīzān fa-aqām ʻalá waḥdānīyatihi al-burhān. Aḥmaduhu ḥamdan yamuddunā bi-mawādd al-iḥsān ...", 18 x 31.5 cm ; written surface: 10.5 x 23 cm, 26 lines per page, Black leather binding., In good, rather fine naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings, keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Some collations and corrections on the margins., On leaf 1a a recent note in pencil: "Nuskhah manqūlah ʻan nuskhah kutibat fī sanat 805, wa-al-khaṭṭ min al-ḥādiyah ʻashar.", and Colophon: "Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyid al-Mrusalīn al-Nabī al-Muṣṭafá wa-raḍiya Allāh ʻan ālihi wa-ʻutratihi wa-ṣaḥbih ahl al-faḍl wa-al-wafā wa-ḥasbunā Allāh wa-kafá. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min musawwadatihi fī shahr Dhī al-Ḥijjah tashrīf sanat thalāth wa-sabʻīn wa-sabʻimiʼah wa-min hādhihi al-nuskhah al-mubārakah fī Shaʻbān sanat khams wa-thamānimiʼah. Jaʻala Allāh taʻālá dhālika khāliṣan li-wajhihi al-karīm mūjiban lil-fawz ladayh fī dār al-naʻīm wa-huwa ḥasbunā wa-niʻma al-wakīl. Qāla dhālika kātibuhu [i.e. kātibuhu] wa-muʼallifuhu faqīr raḥmat rabbihi Muḥammad ibn Mūsá ibn ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī al-Damīrī waqāhu Allāh sharra nafsihi wa-jaʻala būmahu ḥasīran min massihi hawā al-fiṭnah bi-ḥurūfihi. Tammat kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá bi-ḥamd Allāh al-ʻaẓīmah [i.e. al-ʻaẓīm] rabb al-ākhirah wa-al-ūlá. Tammat."
Subject (Name):
Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405.
Subject (Topic):
Zoology, Science, Medieval, and Animals in literature
Caption title., Date based on publisher John Pitts's street address. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 151., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: I canna like you gentle Sir ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Pitts, 14, Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828.
Title from text below first image upper left. Series title centered at top., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Questionable date of publication from British Museum cat., and Seven designs on one plate, each with lines of dialogue etched below.
Publisher:
Published by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand
Print repeats three images of a trout, one below the other, with a line of the title text (divided into three lines) below each image; fish face left. Text in red ink
Description:
"Designed by Whitehead & Whitehead and printed on Fabriano paper in an edition of 800 copies by W. Thomas Taylor as the Book Club of Texas annual broadside for 1989." and Title from text within the image.
Publisher:
Book Club of Texas
Subject (Geographic):
Texas.
Subject (Topic):
Fishing, Trout fishing, Broadsides, and Linoleum block printing, American
Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156
Published / Created:
[between 1140 and 1160].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 482.54
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Honorius of Autun's Imago Mundi
Alternative Title:
De imagine mundi
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials in brown rustic capitals; the initials that begin new chapters are dotted with orange; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; the marginal chapter headings are written by a contemporary hand in brown minuscule and are encircled in orange, with an orange line connecting each circle; the same orange is used to adorn the chapter initials and to mark roman numerals in the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Title from first lines of text., Dated at bottom: December 14, 1812., Place of printing transposed from end of the imprint statement., An order from W. Sadler, Agent, regarding the crops on the Dowager Lady Bolton's tenant farms., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Bell and Fall, printers
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Bolton, Jean Mary Browne-Powlett, Baroness, approximately 1751-1814.
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical texts, tables, and taxonomies about plants, animals, and herbs by Hippocrates, Dycolapius Plato, Apuleius, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides, and Apollinis. Includes copious hand-colored drawings of plants and animals, and a number of full-page author portraits
Alternative Title:
In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicine scilicet Ypocratis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicie s. Ypoctis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, and De herbis masculinis et feminis [and other botanical and zoological works, including the Herbarium of Apuleius]
Description:
In Latin., Title from rubricated heading on f. 3r., Script: southern gothic textualis., Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines., Decoration: copious illustriations of plants and animals. Full-page portraits of the authors on ff. 3v, 50v, and 63r. Rubrication., Binding: 18th/19th-century vellum binding over pastedboard. Spine title: Plantan et animal., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical, Herbals, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Zoology, Medieval