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Source des données : Parker on the Web

• Résumé : 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.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : arabe

  
  

  1r-135v - Kalilah and Dimna

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