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Or 14140
- Record Id:
- 032-002837709
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002837709
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023586788.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023629981.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 14140
- Title:
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‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad قزويني، زكريا بن محمد
- Scope & Content:
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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 copied the text from an autograph copy (i.e. a copy written by the hand of the author).
Title page reads (f. 1r):
كتاب عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب
الموجودات
ألفه زكريا بن محمد بن
محمود القزويني تولاه الله
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
العظمة لك الكبرياء الجلائك الله يا قائم الذات والفيض الخيرات واجب والوجود ورا […]
العقول وفاطر الأرض والسموات مبدي الحركة والزمان ومبدع الحين والمكان وجا عن [...]
النور والظلمات ...
Ends (f. 135v, lines 5-6):
[…]ـستان بشرهما وإذا بعد عنه الصقهما بالحـ[…]
[…] الطيار فإن الثعالب كانت طيارة في […]
Colophon (f. 135v, lines 7-8):
هذا آخر الكلام والحمد لله وجلّه وصلى الله على سـ[…]
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- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002837709
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002837709
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. 135
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023586788.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1295
- End Date:
- 1305
- Date Range:
- c 1300
- Era:
- CE
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 300 x 192 mm leaf [248 x 165 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah?; 25 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: Illuminated title page (f. 1r); 368 paintings
Binding: None
Condition: Many leaves damaged and repaired; each leaf individually encased in plastic sheeting, framed in card and held in eight boxes
Marginalia: Very few
- Administrative Context:
- Mosul?
- Publications:
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Edition:
- al-Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, Kitāb ‘ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt (Miṣr: Maṭba‘at al-Taqaddum)
Study:
- Carboni, Stefano, The 'Wonders of Creation'. A Study of the Ilkhanid 'London Qazwini' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
- Exhibitions:
- Court and Craft in Medieval Mosul, Courtauld Gallery, London, 20 February 2014 - 18 May 2014
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Folio from Aja'ib ms. Exhibited: Court and Craft in Medieval Mosul, Courtauld Gallery, London, 20 February 2014 - 18 May 2014