Medieval Arabic tradition ascribes the translation to Yahya Ibn al-Batriq, but contemporary scholarship does not support this attribution. This Arabic version was the source for the Latin translation De Animalibus by Michael Scot in Toledo before 1217. Several complete manuscript versions exist in Leiden, London, and Tehran), but the text has been edited in separate volumes corresponding to the three Aristotelian sources.
Medieval Arabic tradition attributes the translation to Yahya Ibn al-Batriq, but modern scholarship does not endorse this attribution. This Arabic version served as the basis for Michael Scot's Latin work "De Animalibus" in Toledo before 1217. Several complete manuscript versions exist in Leiden, London, and Tehran, though the text has been edited separately according to the three Aristotelian sources.