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<h1><a name="top"></a>Catalogue: Natural History</h1>
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<em>Kitāb <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayāt
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al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>ayawān</em> <span class="ms"> (MS A 19)</span></dt>
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<dd>(<em>The Life of Animals</em>)</dd>
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<dd><strong>كتاب حياة الحيوان</strong></dd>
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<dd> by <a href="b_d.html#damiri">Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>ammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī</a> (<a href="glossary.html#d">d.</a> 1405/808)</dd>
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<dd><strong>محمد ابن موسى الدميرى</strong></dd>
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<p class="indent">Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>ammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī completed his enormously popular encyclopedia of animal lore in 1372/773 in Cairo, where he spent most of his life. The treatise was arranged alphabetically by the name of the animal, with 1069 entries in total (though some animals are discussed several times under different names). Each entry would include a linguistic discussion of the origin and meaning of the name, a description of the animal and its habits, any accounts of the animal given in the literature concerned with the Prophet (<em>hadith</em>), a statement as to its appropriateness as food, proverbs relating to the animal, its medicinal and occult magical properties, and its significance when it appears in a dream. There were three versions that eventually circulated: a long one, a short one, and one of intermediate size.</p>
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<p class="indent">The National Library of Medicine has a very important copy of this popular compendium, for the copy (MS A 19) was transcribed before the author's death in 1405. The <a href="glossary.html#colophon">colophon</a> of the copy states that the writing of the text was finished in the month of Rajab 773 [= January 1372] and that this copy was finished in the month of Sha'ban 805 [= February-March 1403]. </p>
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<p class="indent">For other copies, see <a href="abbreviation.html#ullmannN">Ullmann, Natur</a>, p. 40 note 1; <a href="glossary.html#gal"><em>GAL</em></a>, vol. 2, p. 138 (172-3);and <a href="abbreviation.html#gals"><em>GAL</em>-S</a>, vol. 2, pp. 170-1.</p>
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<p class="indent">A partial (and rather inadequate) English translation was published as <em>Ad-Damīrī's Hayat al-hayawan: A Zoological Lexicon</em>, translated by A.S.G. Jayakar, 2 vols. (London and Bombay, 1906-8). A recent Arabic edition has been published: al-Damīrī, <em>Hayat al-hayawan al-kubrá</em>, ed. Ahmad Hasan Basaj (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyah, 1994); the NLM copy was not used in this edition.</p>
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<div class="img"><a href="images2/a19115b.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="images2/a19115b-small.jpg" alt="Folio 115b from Muhammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī's Kitab Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān (The Life of Animals). The thick biscuit-brown is quite damaged from worm holes, and there is some water damage. The text is written careful medium-small naskh using black ink with headings in red. The text area has been frame-ruled." title="MS A 19, fol. 115b" /></a>
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<div class="desc"><span class="ms">MS A 19, fol. 115b</span>
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<p class="indent">A sample page from the <em>Kitāb <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">Ḥ</font>ayāt
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al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>ayawān</em> (<em>The Life of Animals</em>) by al-Damīrī (d. 1405/808). This is an important copy, transcribed before the author's death. The copy was completed in the month of Sha‘ban 805 (= February-March 1403). The <a href="glossary.html#copyist">copyist</a> is not named.</p>
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<p class="indent">Arabic. 234 <a href="glossary.html#leaves">leaves</a> (fols. 1b-234a). <a href="glossary.html#dimensions">Dimensions</a> 25.5 x 18 (text area 21 x 18.5) cm; 27 lines per page. The title is given on fol. 1b line 18 near the beginning of the text. The author is not named in this copy; however, a comparison with the numerous copies in other collections makes it evident that this is the popular treatise on zoology written by al-Damīrī. </p>
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<p class="indent">This is an important copy transcribed before the author's death in 1405. The
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<p class="indent">It appears to be a complete copy of the long version.</p>
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<p class="indent">The volume consists of 234 leaves. Fols. 1a and 234b are blank except for the Arabic title written in a recent hand in red pencil.</p>
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<p class="indent">The volume was purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A. S. Yahuda (ELS 1641, M.62). No further information is available on its provenance.</p>
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<p class="indent"><a href="abbreviation.html#schullian">Schullian/Sommer</a> Cat. of incun. & MSS., 1950, A19. p. 303</p>
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