The interpretation of dreams

Abstract

A manuscript of Ibn Qutayba's compilation on dreams! hitherto considered Iost has recently turned up in the Library of the Hebrew University.s The manuscript contains 67 folios of text (15 lines to each page), carefully written in small, vowelled, clear script; three additional folios contain a Iist of contents written by a later scribe, a remark of a reader and a waqf note. The colophon records the date of copying and the place: Damascus, 20 Dhu l-qa'da 845 H.3 The title of the book as given on the title page and in the colophon is t Ibdrat al-ru'yii, But the title recorded on fol. Ib and at the end of the book is Ta'bir al-ru'yii, The book seems to have been known by both titles. Ibn al-Nadtm mentions the compilation as Kitdb ta'bir al-ru'yd ,4 Ibn Khayr records it as Kitdb 'ibiirat al-ru'yii,»