Geography and Cosmography [IO Islamic 2683]

<ul> <li><strong>Geography and Cosmography.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2683&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 725 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>725.</p> <p>2683. Size 11^3/4 in. by 8 in.; foll. 288. Twenty-three lines in a page.</p> <p>هذا كتاب عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات تاليف سيّدنا ... محمد ابن عبدالله القزوانى( sic)نفعنا الله به الخ.</p> <p>Another copy of the same work.</p> <p>Written in a plain but inelegant hand, by Ḥ&acirc;jj&icirc; &lsquo;Al&icirc;; the manumitted slave of one &lsquo;Abd al-ḥaiy (الحاجى على من عتقآء المرحوم عبد الحىّ) , who completed it on 17th Ṣafar , 1176. With numerous spaces for illustrations, which, however have not been added.</p> <p>Foll. 275-285 should be placed between foll. 11 and 12. The <em>recto</em> fol. 283 is occupied by a letter of Sulṭ&acirc;n b. Saif b. M&acirc;lik b. Abu&rsquo;l-&lsquo;Arab Ya&rsquo;rub&icirc;, Im&acirc;m of &lsquo;Om&acirc;n (d. A.H. 1059), ¹ addressed to al-Mutawakkil b. Abu&rsquo;l-Ḳ&acirc;sim Ḳurash&icirc; Zaid&icirc; Yaman&icirc; (Im&acirc;m of Ṣan&rsquo;&acirc;), in a large and inelegant handwriting.</p> <p>[Bibl. Leydeniana.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>¹ Cf. Badger&rsquo;s Im&acirc;ms and Seyyids of &lsquo;Om&acirc;n, p. 78.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>