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Or 8350
- Record Id:
- 032-003719814
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003719814
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110633651.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100133897919.0x000002
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- Or 8350
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Talkhīṣ al-Āthār تلخيص الآثار
Bakuwī, ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn Ṣāliḥ بكوي، عبد الرشيد بن صالح
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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 the text of the abstract, known in full as Talkhīṣ al-Āthār wa-ʿajāʾib al-Malik al-Qahhār (تلخيص الآثار وعجائب الملك القهار), al-Bakuwī added the extra details of longitudes and latitudes for the locations in the text.
The present copy was completed on Tuesday 11 Ramaḍān 803/25 April 1401 by an un-named scribe. It lacks the preface, the introduction to the climes, and the first 31 entries for the First Clime, opening towards the end of the entry for Ṣanʿāʾ (صنعاء). Entries for Bayḍāʾ (بيضاء) and Tins (تنس) of the Third Clime are missing, and have been added in the margin by another hand (ff. 20r-20v). Orthographic errors, especially in place names, are encountered throughout, while several entries are written out of order: see the entry for Lattakia and marginal note, f. 37r-37v, or Bukhārā (بخارا)/Bajānah (بجانة) in the Fifth Clime, added in the wrong order (ff. 77v-78r).
The copy has been foliated using the abjad (Arabic alphanumeric) system in an unusual position (outer edge of verso head margins). This foliation continues throughout a section of misbound text (ff. 47-52 and see notes in the head margins of ff. 1r, 47r, and 53r) suggesting it was added at the time of or after the rebinding. The abjad foliation starts with يب (12) on f. 2v (numbering does not remain on f. 1v due to a repair) indicating the loss of ten folios of text - one quinion quire - from the beginning of the volume.
Contents:
- [The First Clime] ([الإقليم الأول], ff. 1r-4r);
- The Second Clime (الإقليم الثاني, ff. 4r-14r);
- The Third Clime (الإقليم الثالث, ff. 14r-44r);
- The Fourth Clime (الإقليم الرابع, f. 44r-46v, 53r-73v and 47r-52v);
- The Fifth Clime (الإقليم الخامس, ff. 73v-92v);
- The Sixth Clime (الإقليم السادس, ff. 92v-103v);
- The Seventh Clime (الإقليم السابع, ff. 103v-107r).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-4):
وهو الشب اليماني الأبيض وبها نوع من البرّ حبتان منه في
كمام وبها الورس وهو نبت خريطة كالسمسم الصين
بلاد واسعة في المشرق ممتده من الإقليم الأول إلى الإقليم
الثالث...
Ends (ff. 107r, line 12- 107v, line 3)
...ويقطعون من لحمها وإذا لم يلق في
البحر من تلك السيوف لم يخرج لهم السمكة فجاعوا لأن قوتهم من هذه
والله أعلم بما وراء ذلك وليكن هذا آخر ما ذكرنا في تلخيص الآثار والحمد لله
رب العالمين والصلوة على النبي محمد
وآله الطيبين...
Colophon (f. 107v, lines 3-6)
...وقع الفراغ
من نسخه يوم الثلاثاء
حادي عشر من رمضان
سنة ثلاث وثمانمائة
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- 032-003719814
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003719814
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
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Codex; ff. ii+107+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100110633651.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1401
- End Date:
- 1401
- Date Range:
- 11 Ramaḍān 803
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 150 x 108mm leaf [110 x 83mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: Maroon buckram binding
Condition: Losses to beginning of volume, some folio corners torn and repaired at beginning and end of volume, some staining throughout
Marginalia: Some interlinear and marginal corrections in a different hand
Seals: British Museum stamps: ff. 1r and 107v
- Custodial History:
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Various notes, one with date 6 Shawwāl 953/30 November 1546 (f. 107v)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Ḥājjī ‘Abd al-Majīd Belshah (d. 1923), 8 November 1919
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Edition:
- al-Bākuwī, ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn Ṣāliḥ, Kitāb talkhīṣ al-athār wa-ʻajāʼib al-Malik al-Qahhār, ed. by Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn ibn Mūsá Būniyātūf (Mūskū: Dār al-Nashr al-ʻIlm, Idārat al-Taḥrīrah al-Raʼīsīyah lil-Ādāb al-Sharqīsyah, 1971)
Translation:
- De Guignes, Joseph, 'Exposition de ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable sur la terre et des merveilles du Roi Tout-Puissant, par Abdorraschid, fils de Saleh, fils de Nouri, surnommé Yakouti; ouvrage de géographie, composé dans le XVe siecle, Manuscrit Arabe, no. 585' in Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi: lûs au Comité établi par Sa Majesté dans l'Académie royale des inscriptions & belles-lettres, II (Paris: Bibliothèque royale, 1789), pp. 386-545
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)