A’gaeb Almakhlokat Wgraeb Almakhlokat
Manuscript Description:
(A’gaeb Almakhlokat Wgraeb Almakhlokat) is a manuscript classified under the sciences of general knowledge. Its author, Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Qazwini, copied it in the Naskh script, Ali bin Muhammad bin Hassan bin Ali bin Mu’taq al-Sa’di al-Yamani, on the first day of Ramadan in the year 872 Hijiri. The number of papers was 129, the number of lines was 29, and the size was 26 x 18 cm. And the beginning of the manuscript: (The Sheikh Imam said... Greatness is yours and pride is in your majesty, O the Exalted One, the Exhausted of Goodness, the Necessary Existent, the Giver of Minds... The poor servant says.... That is when God Almighty decreed that I should be separated from home and homeland, separated from family and residence...) And the end of the manuscript: (Then he said: Perhaps people marvel at the flying fox, and that foxes were flying in the era of the two books, including a chicken with four legs and a chicken with two heads, and God Almighty knows best...) This copy was written in black ink and some phrases in red, with a commentary, there are comments and corrections in the margins, the first part ended in (61b), it came in the manuscript in several places the name of the author (Muhammad bin Muhammad) and in all sources (Zakaria bin Muhammad), in the first of which are registers that owned by the first (Zakaria Al-Ansari Al-Shafi’i), then (Ali bin Omar Al-Arabi) in the year 969 Hijiri and (Abdullah Al-Anqawi) with the seals of each of them. And the title on the cover page came (the wonders of creatures and the properties of animals and plants) and it was proven as the author called it in his sermon. The name of the scriber had a dot (Al-Sogadi or Al-Safadi), which is recorded according to the bright light, as it was translated by him.
