Ibn Al-Durayhim Al-Mawsili 1354 - El libro de las utilidades de los animales o "Kitab manafi' al-hayawán" (facsimile edition) - 1990

Facsímile edition of an Arabic codex from the Real Biblioteca de El Escorial: The Book of the Utility of Animals, shelf mark MS. árabe 898,

Felipe II built the Real Biblioteca of El Escorial with the idea of turning it into a center of learning and he took the most interesting and valuable books known in the world. Among them this one, of which only the copy in the El Escorial Library is preserved

In the year 1354 (755 AH) Ibn al-Durayhim al-Mawsili completed this work entitled Kitab manafi al-hayawan and notes it in its colophon.

Facsimile edition of 1990, numbered, limited to 995 copies and notarized in the facsimile itself. It forms part of the 150 non-sale copies numbered in Roman numerals, bearing the number CXXVI

Facsimile format 19 x 27 cm, 155 folios that reproduce the illustrated text with animal figures and gilded letters.

Illustrations by the author, as he describes in the colophon. Decorated with numerous miniatures and abundant gold. They illustrate the Islamic medical tradition and the use of animals for these purposes and the superstitions surrounding these topics.

Bound in full aged leather. Simple oriental gold decoration.

ISBN 84-86879-27-2
Legal Deposit: M-46.219-1990

It is read from right to left.

It was purchased at auction in Madrid, coming from an Art Gallery and from the art assets of an investment fund in Art..

It will be shipped perfectly packed