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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Geography--Early works to 1800 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. Add MS 7503

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Add MS 7503
Title:
Ibn Iyās ابن إياس Nashq al-azhār fī ʻajāʼib al-aqṭār نشق الأزهار في عجائب الأقطار
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20 Ramaḍān 1065
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+294+ii

2. Add MS 9596

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Title:
Natījat al-ijtihād fī al-muhādanah wa-al-jihād نتيجة الاجتهاد في المهادنة والجهاد Ghazzāl, Aḥmad ibn al-Mahdī غزال، أحمد بن المهدي
Scope & Content:
First-person travel narrative by Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Mahdī al-Ghazzāl al-Fāsī al-Andalusī al-Mālaqī (أبو العباس أحمد بن المهدي الغزال الفاسي الأندلسي المالقي, d. 1777), ambassador and secretary under the ʿAlawī sultan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh (Muḥammad III; محمد بن عبد الله, reg. 1757-90)....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1767-1777
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+120+v

3. Add MS 23379

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Add MS 23379
Title:
‘Ajā’ib al-aqālīm al-sab‘ah عجائب الأقاليم السبعة Suhrāb سهراب
Scope & Content:
Treatise on mathematical geography for cartographers by Suhrāb (سهراب; see f. 3, line 1) composed between between 902 and 945 (see LeStrange, 'Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdād', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society [1895], p. 2). The full title as given on the title page (f. 2r) is Book o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15 Rabī‘ I 709
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+68+iv

4. IO Islamic 1734

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1734
Title:
Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ابن الوردي، سراج الدين أبو حفص عمر Kharīdat al-ʿajāʾib wa-farīdat al-gharāʾib خريدة العجائب وفريدة الغرائب
Scope & Content:
A work of cosmography, natural history and eschatology focused on Egypt, compiled by Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn al-Wardī (سراج الدين أبو حفص عمر بن الوردي, d. 1457), sometimes mistakenly attributed to the earlier poet and historian Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Wardī (زين الدين ع...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+273+iv

5. Or 1524

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Or 1524
Title:
Kitāb ʿajāʾib al-aqālīm al-sabʿah كتاب عجائب الأقاليم السبعة Ibn Saʿīd, ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ابن سعيد، علي بن موسى
Scope & Content:
The earliest-known copy of a geographical manual, written after 1260 by Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī al-Andalusī al-Gharnāṭī Nūr al-Dīn (ابو الحسن علي ابن موسى ابن محمد ابن عبد الملك ابن سعيد المغربي الاندلسي الغرناطي نور الدين, d. 1286). The p...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1300
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+74+i

6. Or 1526

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Or 1526
Title:
'Ajāʾib al-dunyā عجائب الدنيا Ibn Waṣīf Shāh, Ibrāhīm ابن وصيف شاه، إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
A cosmography in three parts (أجزاء) describing the wonders of the world, and of Egypt in particular, by Ibrāhīm ibn Waṣīf Shāh al-Miṣrī (إبراهيم بن وصيف شاه المصري, d. 1199 or 1200). The present copy was completed on 24 Shawwāl 1093/26 October 1682 by the darwīsh ʿAlī ibn Shams al-Dīn (درويش ع...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
24 Shawwāl 1093
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+109+ii

7. Or 3392

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Or 3392
Title:
Kitāb al-ṣafwah fī waṣf al-mamlakah al-Miṣrīyah كتاب الصفوة في وصف المملكة المصرية Muḥammad al-Ṣūfī محمد الصوفي
Scope & Content:
An abridgement in twelve bābs by the Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn ‘Īsá ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣūfī al-Miṣrī (شمس الدين محمد بن أبي الفتح بن عيسى بن الصوفي المصري, fl. late 15th-early 16th century) of the description of Egypt entitled The Cream of Unveilin...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid-Jumādá II 904
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+68+iv

8. Or 4636

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4636
Title:
Mukhtaṣar nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq مختصر نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق Idrīsī إدريسي
Scope & Content:
An abridgement, without maps, of the Book of Pleasant Journeys into Faraway Lands (نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق) completed in 1157 or 58 by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Idrīsī al-Qurṭubī (أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي القرطبي, c.1100-1166) and also known as the Kitāb Rujār (Book of Roger) for its pa...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+139+iii

9. Or 5305

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5305
Title:
[Kitāb al-masālik wa-al-mamālik كتاب مسالك الممالك] [Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad إصطخري، إبراهيم بن محمد]
Scope & Content:
A descriptive geography of the Islamic world by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī al-Karkhī al-Iṣṭakhrī (أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الكرخي الإصطخري, d. 957/98). The present volume's colophon attributes it to the scribe Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Faq[ī]h al-Sīnābī (إبراهيم بن أحمد فقه السي...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+79+i

10. Or 7712

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7712
Title:
Mawāniḥ al-uns bi-riḥlatī li-wādī al-Quds موانح الأنس برحلتي لوادي القدس Luqaymī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad لقيمي، مصطفى بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
Travel narrative composed in 1164/1751 by the Sufi poet and scholar Muṣṭafá Asʿad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Dimyāṭī al-Luqaymī [or al-Laqīmī] (مصطفى أسعد بن أحمد بن محمد الدمياطي اللقيمي, 1694-1764). The title appears at f. 2r, lines 26-27. The paper used for the copy bears a watermark of a crow...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+117+ii