Kalila wa Dimna: Fables from a Fourteenth-Century Arabic Manuscript.

Title

en_US Kalila wa Dimna: Fables from a Fourteenth-Century Arabic Manuscript.

Description

en_US Esen Atil

Creator

en_US Atıl, Esin

Contributor

en_US Bodleian Manuscript

Date

2016-01-25T16:19:20Z

en_US 1991-06

en_US 1981

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:19:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 1981

Abstract

en_US A beautiful book. Its excellent reproductions (twenty-four in color) of the seventy-eight illustrations of the Bodleian Manuscript Pococke 400 (from the year 1354) complement well Ramsay Wood's Kalila and Dimna text (1982) and are the basis of the illustrations there. These fables are included: The Fox and the Drum; The Lion and the Hare; The Lion, the Crow, the Wolf, the Jackal, and the Camel; TT; The Crow, the Mouse, the Tortoise, and the Gazelle; The Owls and the Crows; The Hare and the Elephant; The Monkey and the Tortoise (here the I forgot my heart motif gets an excellent addition when the monkey says it does not hurt us monkeys to lose our heart and thus reassures the anxious tortoise); The Mouse and the Cat; and The Traveler and the Jeweler. The story is followed by a careful history of it and its illustration, a detailed description of each illustration, and a bibliography. The inside covers misidentify the two jackals after whom the book is named!

Identifier

en_US 874742161

en_US 2821 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78352

Language

en_US ara

Publisher

en_US Smithsonian Institution Press

en_US Washington, D.C.

Subject

en_US PN989.I5 B4 1981

en_US Bidpai

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole