Project / Collection: Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme / Name: Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, c 1203-1283 / Level: [32] Fonds - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1621
Title:: Tarjumah-ʼi ʻAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt ترجمۀ عجائب المخلوقات Anonymous translator
Scope & Content:: The ʻAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt (عجائب المخلوقات) by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد قزوینی) translated from Arabic into Persian at the request of Ibrāhīm ʻĀdil Shāh, ruler of Bijapur in Shaʻbān AH 954 (1547). The text is illustrated with 461 mid-seventeenth-century Deccani paintings and d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 17th and 19th centuries
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+466+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3623
Title:: Āthār al-bilād wa-akhbār al-ʿibād آثار البلاد وأخبار العباد Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad قزويني، زكريا بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Gazetteer of world geography by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). The copy was completed late in the day on Friday 27 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 729/22 September 1329 by Muḥammad ibn Mas‘ūd ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī (محمد بن مسعود بن محمد الهمذاني), who ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 27 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 729
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+174+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8350
Title:: Talkhīṣ al-Āthār تلخيص الآثار Bakuwī, ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn Ṣāliḥ بكوي، عبد الرشيد بن صالح
Scope & Content:: Acephalous copy of an abstract by ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Bakuwī (عبد الرشيد بن صالح البكوي, active 14th-15th centuries) of Monuments of places and reports of the peoples (آثار البلاد وأخبار العباد) by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). To...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 11 Ramaḍān 803
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+107+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14140
Title:: ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad قزويني، زكريا بن محمد
Scope & Content:: The London Qazwīnī. Encyclopaedic work on cosmology by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). The text is lavishly illustrated with 368 paintings. In the undated colophon (f. 135v, lines 7-8; transcribed below) the anonymous scribe claims to have...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: Codex; ff. 135

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