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 </strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> <strong>Otto Loth, </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 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>Sirâj al-dîn ‘Omar <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88250340/">IBN AL-WARDÎ</a>’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. Münch. 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’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 Khândêsh خانديس .</p> <p>Seal of Muḥammad Hâdi Ḥusainî, a servant of ‘Âlamgîr, who bought the book A.H. 1103.</p> <p>[<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4085990">Johnson</a>.]</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
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