Dictionaries [IO Islamic 867] حياة الحيوان selections from

<ul> <li><strong>Dictionaries.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 867&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 1004 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/280/mode/2up"><strong>1004</strong></a>.</p> <p>867. Size 10 in. by 6^1/4 in.; foll. 294. Thirty -one and twenty-nine lines in a page.</p> <p>كتاب حاوى الحِسان مهذب من حياة الحيوان الكبرى تاليف سيدنا و مولانا الشيخ الامام و الحبر الهمام العلامة العمدة محمد بن عبدالقادر بن محمد الدميرى الشافعى ( sic ) رحمه الله الخ</p> <p>A selection from the حياة الحيوان , arranged in the same manner, by MUḤAMMAD B. &lsquo;ABD AL-Ḳ&Acirc;DIR b. Muḥammad Dam&icirc;r&icirc; (?) Ḥanaf&icirc;.¹ This work is not generally known. Ḥ. Kh., iii. 5, just mentions the title of it.</p> <p>The preface begins:</p> <p>الحمد لله الذى خلق الانسان و فضله تفضيلا</p> <p>The author, after praising the original work ( كتاب حياة الحيوان الكبرى ) , speaks of his present task as follows:</p> <p>فانتخبت من هذا الكتاب غرره و التقطت من بحره درره و جمعت ذلك على حروف المعجم كاصله الخ</p> <p>His selection comprises the digression at الاوز , and more of the poetical quotations than the preceding MS. It has also an original appendix, which treats of the properties ( فضائل) of S&ucirc;rah 97.</p> <p>A good copy, probably made in Egypt, about A.H. 900 [=1494-95 CE], but injured by damp, and defective after fol. 150, 229, and 249, and at the end.</p> <p>[<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4085990">Johnson</a>.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>¹ So in the preface; the preceding name in there effaced: only الدﻣ.. remains.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>