[IO Islamic 2725] صور الاقاليم

Ṣuwar-alaḳâlîm .

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 708 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2725 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Ṣuwar-alaḳâlîm ( صور الاقاليم ).

A geographical compendium, styled both in the colophon and on fol.1a صور الاقاليم, and identical with that described by Rieu i. p. 420 sq. The compiler, whose name is note mentioned, was a servant of Amîr Mubâriz-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldunyah wa-aldîn Muḥammad (see fol. 2b, l. 6). The founder of the Mużaffarî dynasty (blinded by his son Shâh Shujâ, A.H. 760=A.D. 1359).

According to a passage in one of the British Museum copies this little book was composed A.H. 748 (A.D. 1347, 1348); comp. also Mélanges Asiatiques, vols. iv. p. 54, vi. P. 574, and vii. p. 43.

Beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين ...... قال الله تبارك تعالى سنريهم آياتنا فى الآفاق و فى انفسهم حتّى يتبيّن لهم انّه الحقّ امّا بعد در تواريخ آمده كه چون سكندر بن فيلقوس الخ .

It is divided into two bâbs:

The first, subdivided into two faṣls, viz.:

فصل اوّل در ذكر كرۀ زمين و مقدار و مساحت آن و معرفت طول و عرض بلدان و خواصّ مواضع (the terrestrial globe, its dimensions, etc.), on fol.3b.

فصل دوم در ذكر آفاق جنوبى و خطّ استوا و ما يتعلّق و ينسب اليه ( the southern hemisphere, the equator, etc.), on fol. 12b.

The second is subdivided into seven. faṣls, each dealing with one of the seven climates, on ff. 22b, 41a, 51a, 84a, 107a, 113a, and 117a.

Dated the 12th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1220 (A.D. 1805, May 12).

Bibliotheca. Leydeniana.

No. 2725, ff. 1-130, ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; Arabic quotations in Naskhî; size, 83/4. by 61/8 in.