Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the Reader -- I Introduction: Image and (Con)text -- II The Manuscript -- The Physical Composition of the Manuscript -- The Codex and its Paper -- Persian Inscriptions -- Paintings -- Inks, Colours and Gold -- Text -- Reconstruction of the Manuscript -- Table -- III Text and Sources -- Aristotle and Ibn Bakhtīshū' as Sources for a New Text -- The Title of the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Manuscripts -- Discourses -- Biographical Sources -- Abū Sa'īd 'Ubayd Allāh ibn Jibrā'īl and the Bakhtīshū' Family of Physicians -- Transmission -- Aristotle and Timotheus of Gaza -- Physiologus -- Other Related Sources -- Unrelated Works -- IV The Frontispieces and Other Human Figures -- Frontispieces: Problems of Interpretation -- Paired Frontispieces -- Problems of Identification -- The Compiler of the Book -- The Sage (Recipient) with Flabellum -- The Ruler-Prince and the Scholar-Prince -- Other Human Figures -- Aristotle and a Pupil -- Ibn Bakhtīshū' (?) and a Pupil -- Man and Woman -- Position, Posture, Gesture -- V The Animals of the Na't -- Textual Composition -- Elephant -- Camel -- Crow -- Narrative -- The Swan-Phoenix -- The Unicorn -- Vipers -- Captions -- VI Composition, Iconography and Style -- Composition and Spatial Arrangement -- Drawing, Painting and Gilding Practice -- Style of Animal Depictions -- Deer -- Gazelles and Ram -- Domestic Ass and Onager -- Bear -- Indian Hedgehog -- Hens and Pigeons -- Mullet and Germon -- Crab -- Scorpion -- Locusts -- Style of Human Figures -- Thrones and Benches -- Bookstand -- Textiles and Dress -- Turbans -- Sharbūsh -- Crowns -- Mantles and Hoods -- Ṭīrāz Bands -- Halo -- Na't and 1224 Dioscorides -- Na't and Ram Ibn al-Ṣūfī -- Grid 1 - Sage -- Grid 2 - Prince -- Grid 3 - Stylistic and Iconographic Concordances -- VII Date and Provenance -- Date -- Provenance -- Zangid Mosul.

Artuqid Diyarbakr, Mardin, and Mayyafariqin -- Syria/Aleppo -- Baghdad and Environs -- VIII Patronage and Milieu -- Sites and Modes of Patronage and Production -- Royal Atelier -- Commercial Workshop -- Monastery -- Library, Madrasa and Private House -- Intellectual Patronage -- Appendix One Analyses of Colours, Ink and Gold by Dr. Paul Garside, Conservation Scientist, British Library -- Appendix Two List of Illustrations -- Appendix Three Selected List of Illuminated and Illustrated Manuscripts Cited -- Colour Plates -- Catalogue of the Paintings of the Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān -- Bibliography -- Index.