Qazwini, Zakariya ibn Muhammad, 1208 or 9-1283 or 4, creator
Published / Created:
[17--?]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 186
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Ajaib al-makhluqat. Persian
Description:
Cosmography. The section dealing with minerals, plants, and man only. Incomplete at beginning and end., Ethe, H. India Office,, Foliated in pencil 1-104, 108-112., Modern (18th century) nastaliq, in red and black; with colored drawings of plants., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and Translated from Arabic.
Qazwini, Zakariya ibn Muhammad, 1208 or 9-1283 or 4, creator
Published / Created:
[1806]
Call Number:
Persian MSS +65
Image Count:
12
Alternative Title:
Ajaib al-makhluqat. Persian
Description:
Copied on A.H. 24 Jumayda al-avval [sic] 1221 [A.D. 1806]., Cosmography, translated from the Arabic., Ethe, H. India Office,, Good nastaliq, in red and black; unwan in colors on leaf 1 verso; with copious crude miniatures., Islamic binding, in brown., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Several lacunae in the text. and Volume I only, stops in the middle of the story of Qamar al-Zamān and Budūr.
Alternative Title:
Arabian nights., Kitāb Alf laylah wa-laylah, ألف ليلة وليلة. -- [17--؟]., and كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة
Description:
Fair modern (18th century) nastaʻlīq, leaves 1-5 supplied in a later hand., In manuscript on leaf 1 recto: "Bought by me at Mocha 1805. M. Thoms[on].", Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Ḥukiya, wa-Allāh aʻlam wa-aʻraf [wa-]akram, fīmā maḍá wa-taqaddam min asālīf al-umam, annahu [kāna] malikayn min mulūk al-ʻAjam, min Banī Sāsān, wa-kānū khawayn [akhawayn] shaqīqayn min umm wa-ab ...", Islamic binding, in brown., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... حكي، والله أعلم وأعرف [و]أكرم، فيما مضى وتقدّم من أساليف الأمم، أنّه [كان] ملكين من ملوك العجم، من بني ساسان، وكانوا خوين [أخوين] شقيقين من أم وأب ..."
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts. and Arabic prose literature--Early works to 1800.