كتاب حياة الحيوان لكمال الدين الدميري

Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī (d. 1405/808) completed his popular encyclopedia of animal lore in 1372/773 in Cairo, where he spent most of his life. The treatise was arranged alphabetically by the name of the animal, with 1069 entries in total (though some animals are discussed several times under dif