Abstract
Kitāb naʿt al-hayawān, is composed of 258 folios, and is illustrated with 86 paintings. The codex has a modern binding in red leather with a decoration of stamped medallions with relief decoration in oriental style on a gilded background. The Persian inscriptions are in a variety of scripts, such as nastaʿlīq (the most frequent), shikasta, and a sort of slanted naskh . It is not known why and when the manuscript was dismantled, when folios were lost and the original order disturbed before being reassembled and rebound. But it must have been in its present condition when it arrived at the British Museum in 1884, for otherwise Charles Rieu would have probably tried to restore the proper sequence of the folios, whereas in his catalogue he merely records, with delicate understatement, that the pagination of the book has been altered. Keywords:258 folios; 86 paintings; Kitāb naʿt al-hayawān; Persian inscriptions
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