Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān
حياة الحيوان

Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405, author.
دميري، محمد بن موسى.

al-Munavvarī, al-Ḥājj Mullā Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ḥasan. editor
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283. ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt. Selections.

1285 [1868]

Hādhā al-kitāb al-musammā bi-ḥayāt al-ḥayawān / li-Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Dumayrī. . Kārkhānah-yi 'Alī Qulī khān,
McGill Library Islamic Lithographs digital collection. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_lithographs/fullrecord.php?ID=11649&d=1. Web. 25 April, 2024. PDF file.

Lithograph.

The book was published in Tehran and dedicated to the Qājār king Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh (d. 1896). Dedication note appears on the first page of each volume accompanied by supplication and honorific title.

No pagination, catchwords, v.1 includes pages 1- 266; v.2 pages 267-564.

35 lines per page, includes marginal notes, images and glosses.

Text pages with straight borders; each volume includes headpieces; Persian naskh script.

Many images of animals and birds, and illustrations are included in the glosses.

Citations/References: Wood, Casey A . Vertebrate Zoology; 309 (variant).

In Arabic

Explicit : و قد ادخل الناس فیه زیادات من غیره کما سیرة تمت الکتاب فی شهر جمادی الاولی

Incipit : بسم ... و صل الله علی سیدنا محمد و آله و صحبه و سلم الحمدالله الذی شرف نوع الانسان بالاصغرین القلب و اللسان و فضله علی ساير الحیوان بنعمتی

image.lithograph.black and white 36 x 22 cm.

Arabic

Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, -- approximately 1203-1283. -- ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt.
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, -- approximately 1203-1283 -- Criticism, Textual.
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, -- approximately 1203-1283
Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
Science, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Zoology.
Québec -- Montréal.
, و بها مشه كتاب عجائب المخلوقات و الحيوانات وغرائب الموجودات , approximately 1203-1283 ,قزوينى، زكريا بن محمد
قزوينى، زكريا بن محمد , approximately 1203-1283

Kārkhānah-yi 'Alī Qulī khān,

Islamic Lithographed Books

Iran

Rare Books and Special Collections - Blacker-Wood Rare Collection - By Consultation folio BWL W11 Rare Books and Special Collections - Blacker-Wood Rare Collection - By Consultation folio BWL W65

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