Skip to main content
zenodoopen

Geography and Cosmography [IO Islamic 1734] خريدة العجائب

<ul> <li><strong>Geography and Cosmography.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1734&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. 726&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>726.</p> <p>1734. Size 8<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 5<sup>3/4</sup> in.; foll. 272. Seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p>Sir&acirc;j al-d&icirc;n &lsquo;Omar <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88250340/">IBN AL-WARD&Icirc;</a>&rsquo;S Cosmography, خريدة العجائب , composed A.H. 822. See Cat. Mus. Brit. 183, 611; <a href="https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2014121025/">Aumer</a>, Hdss. M&uuml;nch. 461; etc. Part of this work was edited by <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2010201151/">Tornberg</a>, under the title, <a href="https://archive.org/details/fragmentumlibri00alwgoog"><em>Fragmentum libri Margarita mirabilium</em></a>, etc., Upsala, 1835-39.</p> <p>This MS. has the same appendix as the Munich and Upsala copies, and of the drawings, the table of the earth and the sketch of the Ka&rsquo;bah. A good copy, written in a clear hand. Both the beginning and the end are wanting. A defect after fol. 167. On fol. 1, which is more modern, is a notice in <em>Persian</em> of Kh&acirc;nd&ecirc;sh خانديس .</p> <p>Seal of Muḥammad H&acirc;di Ḥusain&icirc;, a servant of &lsquo;&Acirc;lamg&icirc;r, who bought the book A.H. 1103.</p> <p>[<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4085990">Johnson</a>.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

ShareScore

32/100

Overall dataset sharing score

Score breakdown

These five areas show where the dataset supports — or may limit — practical reuse.

Stewardship
8
Harmonization
4
Access
16
Reuse readiness
4
Engagement
0

Topics