[IO Islamic 3138] تحفة العجائب

<ul> <li><strong>Tuḥfat-al&rsquo;aj&acirc;&rsquo;ib.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 716 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 3138 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>716</p> <p>Tuḥfat-al&rsquo;aj&acirc;&rsquo;ib ( تحفة العجائب ).</p> <p>An older but greatly abridged Persian translation or rather adaptation of the same second volume of Ḳazw&icirc;n&icirc;&rsquo;s cosmography , the آثار البلاد, called here سبعة الاقاليم , and composed by &lsquo;Al&icirc; Ṭ&acirc;hir&icirc; (Ṭ&acirc;&rsquo;ir&icirc; in Rieu iii. p. 1059^a), A.H. 928 (A.D. 1522), see fol.2^b, ll. 9-11; fol.3^a, l. 9; and fol. 196^b, l. 1 (in Rieu, loc. cit., A.H. 948).</p> <p>Beginning: حمد بيحدّ صانعى را كه عجائب و غرائب عالم آثار ارقام قدرت اوست و منتهاى بى منتها الخ.</p> <p>The <em>first</em> Iḳl&icirc;m begins on fol. 4^a; the <em>second</em>, on dol. 32^b; the <em>third</em>, on fol. 53^a; the <em>fourth</em>, on fol. 94^a; the <em>fifth</em>, on fol. 144^b; the <em>sixth</em>, on fol. 172^a; the seventh, on fol. 187^a, last line. A kh&acirc;timah or epilogue of the translator is found on fol. 194^a, last line sq.</p> <p>Copied in the month Ramaḍ&acirc;n, A.H. 1056 (A.D. 1646, October, November), at Mult&acirc;n.</p> <p>No. 3138, ff. 196, ll. 15; very large and distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; splendid binding in gold and green; size, 12^1/8 in. by 7^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>