Description
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 135
Date created
[ca. 1300-1399]
Language
Arabic
Material
Vellum
Height (mm)
305
Width (mm)
210
Foliation
ff. i-viii + 1-43 + 43a + 44-135 + ix-xiv
Provenance
Given by W. T. Sandiford in 1796.
Decoration
Miniatures of the so-called Baghdad school.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- This manuscript contains an exceptionally beautiful copy of Kalila wa Dimna, the eighth-century Arabic text by Abdullah ibn al-Mugaffa. Ibn al-Mugaffas 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 Aesops 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.
- Contents
- Kalilah and Dimna
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