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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 578: Kalilah and Dimna

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 578: Kalilah and Dimna

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 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.
Contents
Kalilah and Dimna

Bibliographic information

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

Access conditions

Use and reproduction:
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License:
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