Geography and Cosmography [IO Islamic 2440] نشق الازهار فى عجائب الاقطار

Geography and Cosmography.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2440 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 728 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

728.

2440. Size 13 in. by 9 in.; foll. 309. Seventeen lines in a page.

I.Foll. 1-208. The Geography of MUḤAMMAD B. AYÂS, entitled نشق الازهار فى عجائب الاقطار , and composed A.H. 922.

Cf. Ḥ. Kḥ vi. 344; Cat. Mus. Brit. 185 ; Cat.Lugd. ii. 134. A full account of the work, with extracts, has been given by Langlois, in Notices et Extraits, viii. 1 sqq.

Begins: الحمد لله رب العالمين و العاقبة للمتقين .

Well written in Nasta’liḳ. Colophon (fol. 130): چون اصل اين كتاب مخطوش زياده از حد بود ازين باعث مخطوشات درين نسخه زياده از حد خواهد بود اما هر چه از نقل نويسى نوشته آمد بحسب طاقت بشرى در مطابقت ان قصورى نرفته و اين نسخه نقل كرده شد در سفر جزاير جواسمى و بيطاوى كه از كتابت اين نسخه فراغ حاصل شد بوقت دو پاس و سه ٣ ساعت نجومى بساحل جزيرهْ كه نامش رنلم وو است و اين نام او نو است والا نه نام او هيچ معلوم نيست و برين جزيره قريب يكصد جهاز جمع شده بود تحرير فى التاريخ بيست و ششم 1 ماه جمادى الثانى سنة ١٢٢٦ هجرى قدسى.

Foll. 131-208 should be placed between 88 and 89.

II.Foll. 209-309. IBN AL-WARDÎ’S خريدة العجائب .

Imperfect at the beginning. The appendix is less complete than in the other MSS. Written in different Nasta’liḳ hands, about the same time as no. I. At the end is written: جهة کاپى 2 طبع این کتاب نوشته شد .

A defect after fol. 274. Worm-eaten and mended.

On the title-page is written: ‘’Nushrool Azhar. Copied from an ancient Arabic MS. of Col. McKenzie.’’

[Bibl. Leydeniana.]

1 Originally شانزدهم was written .

2 “Copy’’ (?).