Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 578

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 578
    • CCCC MS 578
    • MS 578
    • Parker Library MS 578
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Arabic
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1300 - 1399
  • Decoration :
    • Miniatures of the so-called Baghdad school.
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 135
  • Dimensions :
    • 210 x 305
  • Codicological details :
    • ff. i-viii + 1-43 + 43a + 44-135 + ix-xiv

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Contents

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  • Résumé : This manuscript contains an exceptionally beautiful copy of Kalila wa Dimna, the eighth-century Arabic text by Abdu’llah ibn al-Mugaffa. Ibn al-Mugaffa’s work was based on a third-century Sanskrit speculum principis text, which was transmitted to the Arab world by way of an intermediary sixth-century Persian translation. Kalila wa Dimna contains a series of instructive animal fables, which might be compared to Aesop’s Fables in the Greek tradition. CCCC MS 578 is a fourteenth-century manuscript, in a very fine hand, with superb illustrations characteristic of the Baghdad school. The manuscript was given to Corpus Christi College by W. T. Sandiford in 1796.


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    Langue(s) des textes : arabe


    1r-135v - Kalilah and Dimna

    Note : Arabic version of the Book of Kalilah and Dimna, by Abdu'llah ibn n'l-Mugaffa

Provenance

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  • Given by W. T. Sandiford in 1796.

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