Geography and Cosmography [IO Islamic 845] عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات

Geography and Cosmography.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 845 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 723 here with notations and hyperlinks].

723.

845. Size 141/4 in. by 101/4 in.; foll. 256. Twenty-two lines in a page.

Zakarîyâ b. Muḥammad b. Maḥmûd ḲAZWÎNÎ’S (d. A.H. 682) Natural History , عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات ; being the first part of his Cosmography, which was edited by Wüstenfeld, Göttingen, 1848-49, and partly translated into German by Dr. Ethé, Leipzig, 1868. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 188; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, ii. 505; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 192; etc.

An elegant copy, with numerous illustrations.

Beautifully written, but without vowel-points. Colophon:2

 و قد تم هذا الكتاب المسمّى بعجائب .... على يدى اضعف عبادالله الملك الكونين ابن كمال الدين حسين عفى عنهما و غفر ذنوبهما فى منتصف شهر الله الاصب رجب المرجب .... سنة تسع و سبعين و تسمعمائة الهجريّة الخ. 

Two splendid ornaments inclose the text of the first two pages; gold and coloured lines are round the others. Worm-eaten.

The leaves of the first portion have been misplaced in binding; they should stand in the following order: 1-40, 47-70, 45-46, 41-44, 71, etc.

Seals of ‘Alî Mardân, a ‘’slave’’ of Shâh ‘Âlam, and Muḥammad Kâẓim Ḥusainî Mâzandarânî.

[Johnson.]

2 Compare the following no.

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