Geography and Cosmography [IO Islamic 1734] خريدة العجائب

Geography and Cosmography.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1734 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 726 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

726.

1734. Size 81/4 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 272. Seventeen lines in a page.

Sirâj al-dîn ‘Omar IBN AL-WARDÎ’S Cosmography, خريدة العجائب , composed A.H. 822. See Cat. Mus. Brit. 183, 611; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 461; etc. Part of this work was edited by Tornberg, under the title, Fragmentum libri Margarita mirabilium, etc., Upsala, 1835-39.

This MS. has the same appendix as the Munich and Upsala copies, and of the drawings, the table of the earth and the sketch of the Ka’bah. A good copy, written in a clear hand. Both the beginning and the end are wanting. A defect after fol. 167. On fol. 1, which is more modern, is a notice in Persian of Khândêsh خانديس .

Seal of Muḥammad Hâdi Ḥusainî, a servant of ‘Âlamgîr, who bought the book A.H. 1103.

[Johnson.]