The Kitāb al-Hayawān (كتاب الحيوان; English: Book of Animals) is an Arabic translation in 19 treatises (maqālāt').Historia Animalium : treatises 1-10De Partibus Animalium : treatises 11-14De Generatione Animalium : treatises 15-19 While the book is often attributed to Al-Jahiz, the first translation was done by Michael Scot in Sicily 1236, De Animalibus . The complete text is available only in manuscript form (in Tehran), but treatises 11-14 (De Partibus)have been edited as Ajzā ’ al-hayawān (The Parts of Animals) Edited by ‘  Abd al-Rahmān  al-Badawī . Kuwait: Wakālat al-matbū ‘  āt, 1978 and 15-19 (De Generatione) as Fī kawn al-hayawān (On the Being of Animals).Fī kawn al-hayawān (On the Being of Animals) (Ed. J. Brugman and H.J.Drossaart Lulofs .  Leiden: Brill, 1971 References in zoography Page from the Kitāb al-Hayawān by Al-Jahiz. Kitāb al-hayawān was known at least indirectly to several important zoographers including Al-Jāhiz (Kitāb al-hayawān), Al-Mas‘ūdī (Murawwaj al-dhahab), Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī (Al-Imtā‘ wa al-mu’ānasa), Al-Qazwīnī (‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt), and Al-Damīrī (Hayāt al-hayawān). They may have known the Aristotelian Kitāb al-hayawān at second hand from Arabic compendiums of selected passages from the book. The only extant compendium is the Maqāla tushtamalu ‘à la fusūl min kitāb al-hayawān, attributed (probably falsely) to Mūsà bin Maymūn (Moses Maimonides), and the Greek Compendium of Nicolaus Damascenus was at least partially available by the 11th century. In the Christian West Finally, Michael Scot’s early 13th-century Latin translation of the Kitāb al-hayawān, De Animalibus, is worthy of mention as the vehicle of transmission into Western Europe. It was alleged by Roger Bacon that Scot "had appropriated to himself the credit of translations which more properly belonged to one Andreas the Jew." This may mean that he had help with the Arabic manuscript, or that he worked fully or in part from a Judaeo-Arabic or Hebrew version. Scot's De Animalibus '' is available in a partial edition.Scot, Michael. De Animalibus. Vols 1-3. Leiden: Brill, 1992
The Kitāb al-Ḥayawān (كتاب الحيوان; English: Book of Animals) is an Arabic translation in 19 treatises (maqālāt').Historia Animalium : treatises 1-10De Partibus Animalium : treatises 11-14De Generatione Animalium : treatises 15-19 Medieval Arabic tradition ascribes the translation to Yahya ibn al-Batriq, but contemporary scholarship does not support this attribution. This Arabic version was the source for the Latin translation De Animalibus by Michael ScotAafke M.I. Oppenraay, ed. De Animalibus: Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation. 3 volumes. Leidin: Brill, 1992-2020. in Toledo before 1217.<ref>Emily Savage-Smith, review of Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus. The Arabic Version of Aristotle's Book of Animals: Books XI-XIV of the Kitāb al-Hayawān. Isis 72, n° 4 (1981): 679-680 . </ref> Several complete manuscript versions exist in Leiden, London, and Tehran), Aafke M. I. Van Oppenraay. "Avicenna ’ s Liber de animalibus ( ‘ Abbreviatio Avicennae’): Preliminaries and State of Affairs." Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 28 (2017): 403, note 7. but the text has been edited in separate volumes corresponding to the three Aristotelian sources. The Egyptian existentialist philosopher ‘ Abd al-Rahmān Badawī edited Treatises 1-10 (Historia Animalium) as Ṭibā‘ al-Ḥayawān‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Badawī , ed. Ṭibā ‘ al-Ḥayawān. Kuwait: Wikālat al-maṭbū‘ āt, 1977. and Treatises 11-14 (De Partibus Animalium) as Ajzā al-Ḥayawān.'Abd al-Rahmān al-Badawī, ed. Ajzā al-Ḥayawān. Kuwait: Wikālat al-Maṭbū‘āt, 1978. Treatises 15-19 (De Generatione Animalium) first appeared in the Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus series in 1971. J. Brugman and J . H. Drossaart Lulofs, eds. Aristotle, Generation of Animals. The Arabic Translation Commonly Ascribed to Yaḥyā ibn al-Biṭrīq. Leiden: Brill, 1971. This series then published Treatises 11-14Remke Kruk, ed. The Arabic version of Aristotle's Parts of Animals: Books XI-XIV of the Kitāb al-Ḥayawān. Amsterdam, Oxford: North Holland, 1979. and Treatises 1-10.L.S. Filius, ed. The Arabic Version of Aristotle's Historia Animalium: Books I-X of the Kitāb al-Ḥayawān. Leiden: Brill, 2018. References in zoography Page from the Kitāb al-Hayawān by Al-Jahiz. Kitāb al-hayawān was known at least indirectly to several important zoographers including Al-Jāhiz (Kitāb al-hayawān), Al-Mas‘ūdī (Murawwaj al-dhahab), Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī (Al-Imtā‘ wa al-mu’ānasa), Al-Qazwīnī (‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt), and Al-Damīrī (Hayāt al-hayawān). They may have known the Aristotelian Kitāb al-hayawān at second hand from Arabic compendiums of selected passages from the book. The only extant compendium is the Maqāla tushtamalu ‘à la fusūl min kitāb al-hayawān, attributed (probably falsely) to Mūsà bin Maymūn (Moses Maimonides), and the Greek Compendium of Nicolaus Damascenus was at least partially available by the 11th century. In the Christian West Finally, Michael Scot’s early 13th-century Latin translation of the Kitāb al-hayawān, De Animalibus, is worthy of mention as the vehicle of transmission into Western Europe. It was alleged by Roger Bacon that Scot "had appropriated to himself the credit of translations which more properly belonged to one Andreas the Jew." This may mean that he had help with the Arabic manuscript, or that he worked fully or in part from a Judaeo-Arabic or Hebrew version. Scot's De Animalibus is available in a partial edition.Scot, Michael. De Animalibus. Vols 1-3. Leiden: Brill, 1992
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