Nukhbat al-dahr fī ʻajāʼib al-barr wa-al-baḥr نخبة الدهر في عجائب البر والبحر Dimashqī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib دمشقي، شمس الدين محمد بن أبي طالب
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Illustrated cosmological compendium in nine chapters (أبواب), subdivided into many sections (فصول), by the theologian and polymath Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ansārī al-Dimashqī (شمس الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أبي طالب الأنصاري الدمشقي, d. 1327). The copy was completed...
Ibn Iyās ابن إياس Nashq al-azhār fī ʻajāʼib al-aqṭār نشق الأزهار في عجائب الأقطار
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A geographical compendium with a particular emphasis on Egypt (see f. 1v, lines 9-13), by Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ibn Iyās (أبو البركات محمد ابن أحمد ابن إياس; died c. 1524). The text was completed on 14 Shaʻbān 922/11 September 1516 (see f. 293v, lines 17-20 transcribed below), and t...