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Add MS 7496
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- 032-003790030
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- 032-003790030
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- Add MS 7496
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IkhtiṣārKitāb al-buldān اختصار كتاب البلدان
Ibnal-Faqīh al-Hamadhanī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن الفقيهالهمذاني، أحمد بن محمد
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Abridgement made around 413/1022 by ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Shayzarī (علي بن جعفر بن أحمد الشيزري) of a treatise on literary geography composed by the traditionist and jurist Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī (أبو بكر أحمد بن محمد الهمذاني, fl. circa 290/903), known as Ibn al-Faqīh (ابن افقيه). As well as geographical data, the work contains much poetry and hadith, history and legends, accounts of wondrous marvels, and ethnographic observations.
The text, based partly on the present copy, was published as Ibn al-Faqīh, Mukhtaṣar kitāb al-buldān, edited by M. J. de Goeje (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1885).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
قال قال الفضل بن يحيى الناس أربع طبقات ملوك قدمهم الاستحقاق ووزراء
فضلهم الفطنة والرأي وعلية أنهضهم اليسار وأوساط ألحقهم بهم
التأدب والناس بعدهم زبد جفأ وسيل غثأ لكع ولكاع وربيطة اتضاع
هم أحدهم طعمه ونومه...
Ends (f. 91v, lines 1-7):
... ومن أستراباذ إلى طميس سبع فراسخ
ومن طميس إلى بامنة [!] ثلاثة فراسخ من بامنة [!] إلى النواسك [!] ثمنية فراسخ وحد
جرجان من حد طبرستان إلى رباط حفص وبينهما تسعة فراسخ ثم إلى
مدينة جرجان سبعة فراسخ
تم الاختصار من كتاب البلدان
والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على محمد وآله
أجمعين وسلم دائمًا كثيرًا
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. i+91+i
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 13th century-14th century
- Era:
- CE
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 244 x 165 mm leaf [205 x 129 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 31 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm
Script: Fully vocalised naskh apparently using a pointed nib, with larger headings
Ink: Black ink
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum maroon buckram half binding
Condition: Some waterstains to upper fore edge margins; upper and lower fore edge corners of ff. 64-66 and 91 damaged and repaired with paper
Marginalia: A few marginal notes and corrections in the scribal and other hands
Seals: ff. 1r and 1v
British Museum stamps: ff. 1r, 7r, 16r, 27r, 38r, 59r, 67r, 76r, 83r and 91v
- 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. 1v);
- Many erased and illegible seals (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Mary Rich (née Mackintosh), widow of Claudius James Rich (1786-1821), Political Resident in Baghdad (1808-21), 25 March 1825
- Finding Aids:
- 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 380, pp. 182-83
- Publications:
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Editions:
- Ibn al-Faqīh, Mukhtaṣar kitāb al-buldān, Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum 5, ed. by M. J. de Goeje (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1885)
- Ibn al-Faqīh, Kitāb al-Buldān, edited by Yūsuf al-Hādī, 2nd ed. (Bayrūt: ʿĀlam al-Kutub, 2009)
Translations:
- Ibn al-Faqīh, Abrégé du Livre du Pays, trans. by Henri Massé (Damascus: Institut Français de Damas, 1973)
- Ibn al-Faqīh, Tarjumah-yi mukhtaṣar-i al-Buldān, trans. by Ḥ. Masʿūd (Tihrān, Bakhsh-i marbūṭ be Īrān, 1349/1970)
Studies:
- Khalidov, Anas B., ‘Myth and reality in the K. akhbār al-buldān by Ibn al-Faqīh’, in Angelika Neuwirth, Birgit Embaló, Sebastian Günther, and Maher Jarrar (eds.), Myths, historical archetypes and symbolic figures in Arabic literature. Towards a new hermeneutic approach—proceedings of the international symposium in Beirut, June 25th–June 30th, 1996 (Beirut, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999), pp. 481-89
- Khalidov, Anas B. ‘Ebn al-Faqīh, Abū Bakr Aḥmad’, Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. by Ehsan Yarshater, vol 8, fasc 1 (Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 1997), pp. 23-25
- Miquel, André, La géographie humaine du monde musulman jusqu’au milieu du 11e siècle (Paris: La Haye, 1967)
- Silverstein, Adam, ‘Ibn al-Faqīh’, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Devin J. Stewart. Consulted online on 08 August 2023 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_30769)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ibn al-Faqīh al-Hamadhānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 902,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90049508 - Subjects:
- Geography--Early works to 1800