[IO Islamic 2725] صور الاقاليم

<strong>Ṣuwar-alaḳâlîm</strong><strong> .</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 708 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 2725 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 708 Ṣuwar-alaḳâlîm ( صور الاقاليم ). A geographical compendium, styled both in the colophon and on fol.1^a 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. 2^b, 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 <em>first</em>, 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.3^b. فصل دوم در ذكر آفاق جنوبى و خطّ استوا و ما يتعلّق و ينسب اليه ( the southern hemisphere, the equator, etc.), on fol. 12^b. The <em>second</em> is subdivided into seven. faṣls, each dealing with one of the seven climates, on ff. 22^b, 41^a, 51^a, 84^a, 107^a, 113^a, and 117^a. 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, 8^3/4. by 6^1/8 in.