Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 578: Kalilah and Dimna
Description
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
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiv
- Augmented James Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rg489zn8735/578.pdf
- Contains
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- Kalilah and Dimna. 1r-135v
- Note
- Arabic version of the Book of Kalilah and Dimna, by Abdu'llah ibn n'l-Mugaffa
- Kalilah and Dimna. 1r-135v
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/yg734tn1217
- MS 578
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction:
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- License:
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