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العربية: يحتوي هذا الجزء من المخطوطة على أقدم نص مصور لكتاب نعت الحيوان، وهو كتاب حيواني منسوب إلى الطبيب جبريل بن بختيشوع
English: Aristotle teaching, from London, British Library MS or. 2784, f. 96r. This part of the manuscript contains the earliest illustrated text of the Kitāb naʿt al-hayawān, a bestiary attributed to Jabril ibn Bukhtishu. From c. 1220, possibly a monastery in North Jazira (in Mesopotamia). (Anna Contadini, 'A Bestiary Tale: Text and Image of the Unicorn in the Kitāb naʿt al-hayawān (British Library, or. 2784, f.96)', Muqarnas, 20 (2003), 17-33; https://www.jstor.org/stable/1523325.)
Date 13th century
institution QS:P195,Q23308
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Or. 2784 f.96r.
Source/Photographer From: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study ([no place]: World of Islam Festival Publishing, 1976), p. 50 plate 22 (with note p. 241), ISBN 090503502X.

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