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拍品专文
The second of the two texts included in this manuscript is the Faras-nama or ‘Book of Horses’ and deals with characteristics and illnesses of the horse (starting on f.72). It is the same work as one included in two compilation of texts in the Bibliothèque nationale, Suppl. Persan 347 (see Francis Richard, “Un traité persan d'hippiatrie portant la date de 555 H. (1160) dans un manuscrit de la Bibliothèque nationale”, Studia Iranica, 19 (1990), pp. 95-101) and Suppl. Persan 346. The author of the work is given in the text as Qaniyus, purportedly Alexander the Great’s vizier. There are a number of works titled Faras-Nama and Storey mentions Qanyus as the author together with Aristotle, Hippocrates, and Huraimah bin Aghbas. It is divided, according to the preface, into seventy or seventy-seven chapters (C.A. Storey, Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey, Volume II, part 3, Leiden, 1977, p.401). Our copy includes seventy chapters. A copy of a Faras-nama attributed to Qaniyus al-Hakim, dated 1810 AD, is in the Wellcome Library (WMS.Per.57).
The shorter of the two texts is a Baz-nama or treatise on the keeping and training of falcons. A number of treatises on this subject are known, dealing with the various kinds of birds of prey, how to capture and tame them, the diseases afflicting them and their treatment. Storey discusses 17 identified works on falconry and 21 unidentified ones (Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. IV, Fasc. 1, pp. 65-66).
A carbon date test performed on this manuscript confirms the suggested dating.
The shorter of the two texts is a Baz-nama or treatise on the keeping and training of falcons. A number of treatises on this subject are known, dealing with the various kinds of birds of prey, how to capture and tame them, the diseases afflicting them and their treatment. Storey discusses 17 identified works on falconry and 21 unidentified ones (Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. IV, Fasc. 1, pp. 65-66).
A carbon date test performed on this manuscript confirms the suggested dating.