Project / Collection: Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme / Subject: Cosmology -- early works to 1800 / Name: Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, c 1203-1283 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Cosmology -- early works to 1800 Name Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, c 1203-1283

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 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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