Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 575
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
In the center of the map is Mecca; the ocean is located on each side along the outer edge of the sheet with the pillars of the earth in the four corners. Great emphasis is placed on Africa and the Nile river. Other places of interest include: Wasteland where nobody lives, Mountains of the Moon, Land of the Slavs and Franks, Gog and Magog, Land of the Turks (Central Asia), Red Sea (rectangular water mass), the Source of life
History of the construction of the Aya Sofya palace
Description:
In Persian., The manuscript was probably copied not long after the date of composition of the treatise, A.H. 982 (A.D. 1574 or 75)., Fair nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and blue on leaf 229 verso; leaves 229-230 with gold rectangular borders., Islamic binding, in contemporary brown calf., and With: 2 other titles.