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Abu Bakr ibn al-Muzhir; Farah nama i Jamali (about 1184) Persia
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Taken from; website of French national library
Full name: Abu Bakr ibn al-Muzhir ibn Muhammad al-Jamal al-Yazdi.
It is a Persian encyclopedia of which I did not find a translation so far.
The picture is taken from a 17th century manuscript.
An encyclopaedia of superstition connected with every form of the organic and inorganic world,numbers, forms of divination, dreams, and some crafts.
The Farah Namah comprises the following sixteen books (Makalat), subdivided into chapters (Fasl) :
1. Useful properties of various parts of the body in men and quadrupeds, fol. 8 h.
2. Useful properties of birds, reptiles, and insects, fol. 53 a.
3. Properties of trees, vegetables, and seeds, fol. 84 h.
4 —6. Properties of herbs and leaves, fol. 119 b, of gums, fol. 122 h, of stones and metals, fol. 125 a.
7. Drugs and perfumes, fol135a
8.Oils, and Firasat, fol. 144 a.
9.Divination by shoulder-blades, and astrology, fol. 150 a.
10.Auguries derived from throbbing of the muscles ; divination of the death or recovery of the sick ; vocabulary of Pehlevi words, fol. 181 a.
11. Poisons and antidotes, fol. 198 h.
12. Mode of dissolving gold, pearls, etc., fol. 207 S.
13. Conjuring tricks, magic inks, etc., fol. 210 5.
14. Khavatim, or symbols, of the planets, fol. 217 a.
(the rest in missing in this ms of the British Library)
Some pictures from a different ms from the 17th century: giraffe, chetah, 2 times a leopard, lion
