[IO Islamic 3033] عجائب الاقاليم

<ul> <li><strong>&lsquo;Aj&acirc;&rsquo;ib-alaḳ&acirc;l&icirc;m.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 717 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 3033 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>717</p> <p>&lsquo;Aj&acirc;&rsquo;ib-alaḳ&acirc;l&icirc;m (عجائب الاقاليم ).</p> <p>A compendium of cosmography by an anonymous author, written, as Rieu i. p. 417 proves, about A.H. 908 or 909 (A.D. 1502, 1503), and dedicated to the waz&icirc;r Ghiy&acirc;th-almillah wa alduny&acirc; wa-aldin Ḥab&icirc;b-all&acirc;h (see here, fol. 114^a, ll. 12 and 13). It is divided into a <em>mu</em><em>ḳaddimah</em>, on geometry (در بيان آشنائى كه مقاصد برآن موقوفست ), on fol. 114^a, last line; <em>two</em> <em>ma</em><em>ḳ&acirc;las</em>, 1.Measurement and division of the globe and detailed account of the seven climates ( در مساحت سطح ارض و تعيين اقاليم و آنچه بدان متعلّق است ), on fol. 116^a; 2.Measurement of the spheres and stars, etc. ( در معرفت مساحت افلاك و كواكب و آنچه بدان متعلّقست), on fol.155^a; and a <em>kh&acirc;timah</em> on the times of prayers and the ḳiblah ( در ملحقات ), on fol. 160^b.</p> <p>Beginning: الحمد لله الذى زيّن السماء بزينة الكواكب و نوّر وجه الغبراء الخ.</p> <p>Dated by Malik Muḥammad ibn Ḥ&acirc;j&icirc;, end of Rajab, A.H. 1024 (A.D. 1615, August 25).</p> <p>No. 3033, ff. 113-165, ll. 20; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 10 in. by 5^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>