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Add MS 7503
- Record Id:
- 032-003471879
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003471879
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100092865308.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113508805.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 7503
- Title:
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Ibn Iyās ابن إياس
Nashq al-azhār fī ʻajāʼib al-aqṭār نشق الأزهار في عجائب الأقطار
- Scope & Content:
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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 the present copy was completed on 20 Ramaḍān 1065/24 July 1655 by Qāsim ibn Muḥammad al-Rūmī (قاسم ابن محمد الرومي; see Colophon, f. 294r, lines 3-5, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 2-3)
الحمد لله الذي عرف وفهم وعلم الإنسان ما لم يكن يعلم هدى
أقوامًا إلى اقتناص شوارد المعارف والعلوم...
Ends (f. 293v, lines 17-20)
...وهذا آخر ما انتهى إلي مما جمعته في هذا الكتاب
ووقع عليه الاختيار من الأخبار والآثار وأعاننا الله سبحانه وتعالى على
جمعه إلى أن فرغ في يوم الجمعة المباركة رابع عشر شعبان المكرم سنة
اثنين وعشرين وتسعمائة...
Colophon (f. 294r, lines 3-5)
وكان الفراغ من كتابته نقلًا على يد أفقر العباد الي رحمة ربه قاسم
ابن محمد الرومي في عشري رمضان المعظم يوم السبت المبارك
سنة خمسة وستين وألف من الهجرة النبوية...
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- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-003471879
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- 032-003471879
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+294+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100092865308.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1665
- End Date:
- 1665
- Date Range:
- 20 Ramaḍān 1065
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 220 x 144 mm leaf [147 x 93 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 14 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Qāsim ibn Muḥammad al-Rūmī (قاسم ابن محمد الرومي; see f. 294r, lines 3-5)
Ink: Black and brown ink, with rubricated headings in text and margins, and overlinings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: Both boards covered with red leather with blind-tooled frames enclosing a repair made of varnished Eastern laid paper; repaired spine
Condition: Waterstains to upper edge in first half of the volume and lower edge in the middle; some ink transfer and smudges
Marginalia: Very few, some scribal corrections
Seals: f. 1r; British Museum seals: ff. 1r, 16r, 31r, 43r, 76r, 93r, 111r, 123r, 147r, 173r, 183r, 211r, 228r, 273r and 294v
- Custodial History:
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- Claudius James Rich (كلاديس جيمس رچ, b. 1786-d. 1821), Political Resident in Baghdad (1808-21): his seal (in Arabic), dated 1812, with legend (from the preface to the Gulistān of Sa‘dī) بلغ العلى بكماله كشف الدجى بجماله حسنت جميع خصاله صلوا عليه وآله (f. 1r);
- Anonymous ownership inscription, dated Jumādá 1196/1782 (f. 294v);
- al-Faqīr al-Sūdānī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Fulānī al-Kashināwī (الفقير السوداني محمد ابن محمد الفلاني الكشناوي, d. 1154/1741-2), Mālikī scholar of Katsina (in modern Nigeria), resident at Cairo: his ownership inscription, dated 1141/1728-29 (f. 1r);
- Ḥasan al-Ḥibrīnī [?] (حسن الحبريني): his ownership inscription (f. 1r);
- Aḥmad al-Ḥamawī (أحمد الحموي): his inscription (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Mary Rich (née Mackintosh), widow of Claudius James Rich (1786-1821), Political Resident in Baghdad (1808-21), 25 March 1825
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 385, pp. 185.
- Publications:
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Edition and French translation (partial):
- Ibn Iyās, 'Nubdhah min nashq al-azhār fī ʿajāʾib al-aqṭār. Extraits de l’odeur des fleurs dans les merveilles de l’univers, (Cosmographie) de Mohhammed ben-Ahhmed ben-Ayâs', Louis Langlès (tr.), Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque impériale et autres bibliothèques, 8,1 (Paris: De l’imprimerie impériale, 1807).
Study:
- Chalyan-Daffner, Kristine, Natural Disasters in Mamlūk Egypt (1250-1517): Perceptions, Interpretations and Human Responses, Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Heidelberg (2013)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)