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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Geography--Early works to 1800

11. Or 3392

Reference (shelfmark):
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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Or 7978

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7978
Title:
Kawkab al-rawḍah كوكب الروضة Suyūṭī سيوطي
Scope & Content:
A compendium of history and description regarding the island of al-Rawḍah in Cairo, in prose and verse, completed in Jumādá II 895/April-May 1490 (see f. 203v, lines 5-6) by Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكرالسيوطي, d. 1505). The present copy w...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16 Muḥarram 1009
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+203+i

16. Or 8086, ff 51r-76v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086, ff 51r-76v
Title:
Compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators
Scope & Content:
A compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators, attributed to the 'wise men of the sea' (علماء البحر), and completed by an un-named scribe on 2 Jumādá II 1287/30 August 1870 (see colophon, f. 76r, transcribed below). The first half of the work (ff. 51r-59v) is divided into an in...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Jumādá II 1287
Extent:
Ff. 51r-76v

17. Or 8086, ff 77v-106r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086, ff 77v-106r
Title:
Didactic manual of nautical and navigational practices
Scope & Content:
A teaching manual transmitted from an anonymous author (المؤلف) on navigational practices and nautical information, interspersed with poems. Following an introductory sermon (خطبة), the first part of the work contains numerous sections (أبواب) on theoretical astronomy and observation (understan...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1870
Extent:
Ff. 77v-106r

18. Or 8350

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

19. Or 10975

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 10975
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). According to the colophon (f. 63r, lines 4-15, transcribed ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
23 Ramaḍān 711
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+63+i

20. Or 14293

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14293
Title:
Yatīmat al-ʿaṣr fī al-madd wa-al-jazr يتيمة العصر في المد والجزر Ibn Mīmī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ابن مِيمي، عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي
Scope & Content:
A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī (عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي بن مِيمي البصري, d. 1674). The text, also known as Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd (وري الزند بالجزر والمد), was composed in 1084/1673 and the pr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14 Jumādá II 1085
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+125