Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 578

Source

Parker Library On the Web (Cambridge)

Library

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Shelfmark

• MS 578

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q210675

Date

• 1300 - 1399

Language

• Arabic

Title

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

Description

• 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 :

  
  

  1r-135v - Kalilah and Dimna

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

Rights

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License

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Digitisation

• https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/yg734tn1217

Manifest URL

• https://dms-data.stanford.edu/data/manifests/Parker/yg734tn1217/manifest.json

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