[IO Islamic 3033] عجائب الاقاليم

‘Ajâ’ib-alaḳâlîm.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 717 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 3033 here with notations and hyperlinks].

717

‘Ajâ’ib-alaḳâlîm (عجائب الاقاليم ).

A compendium of cosmography by an anonymous author, written, as Rieu i. p. 417 proves, about A.H. 908 or 909 (A.D. 1502, 1503), and dedicated to the wazîr Ghiyâth-almillah wa aldunyâ wa-aldin Ḥabîb-allâh (see here, fol. 114a, ll. 12 and 13). It is divided into a muḳaddimah, on geometry (در بيان آشنائى كه مقاصد برآن موقوفست ), on fol. 114a, last line; two maḳâlas, 1.Measurement and division of the globe and detailed account of the seven climates ( در مساحت سطح ارض و تعيين اقاليم و آنچه بدان متعلّق است ), on fol. 116a; 2.Measurement of the spheres and stars, etc. ( در معرفت مساحت افلاك و كواكب و آنچه بدان متعلّقست), on fol.155a; and a khâtimah on the times of prayers and the ḳiblah ( در ملحقات ), on fol. 160b.

Beginning: الحمد لله الذى زيّن السماء بزينة الكواكب و نوّر وجه الغبراء الخ.

Dated by Malik Muḥammad ibn Ḥâjî, end of Rajab, A.H. 1024 (A.D. 1615, August 25).

No. 3033, ff. 113-165, ll. 20; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10 in. by 53/8 in.