Kitab al-Masalik wa’l-Mamalik of al-Istakhri

Name: Kitab al-Masalik wa’l-Mamalik of al-Istakhri
Author: Written by al-Istakhri

العنوان	Kitab al-Masalik wa’l-Mamalik of al-Istakhri
المؤلف	Written by al-Istakhri
تاريخ النشر:	AH 706 / AD 1306–07
مكان النشر	Iran, perhaps Isfahan -
الموضوع	Ilkhanids — ink, gold, silver and opaque watercolour on paper; contemporary leather binding
النوع	kitap
اللغة	غير محدد
رقمي	نعم
مخطوط	نعم
الأبعاد الفيزيائية	25cm x 15cm
المكتبة:	Museum With No Frontiers
معرف أصل المكتبة	MSS 972
رقم السجل	GalEx6_uk_Mus82_3
موقع المكتبة	Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art
التاريخ	AH 706 / AD 1306–07
ملاحظات	The AH 4th / AD 10th-century Persian geographer al-Istakhri was one of the most important figures in the evolution of Arab cartography. He travelled widely, but his account of Arabia (Hijaz, Yemen and the Gulf) is curiously sketchy, particularly given the importance of the Pilgrimage. This is partly because, as the title of this treatise,Kitabal-masalik wa’l-mamalik(‘the book of postal routes and kingdoms’), suggests, it is based on lists of stations on the postal routes of theAbbasidheartlands and in Iran, which were not available for Arabia and Egypt.In its present state the manuscript is incomplete. It opens with a splendid page of illumination in gold and silver, and on the penultimate page (folio 120a) is a colophon with the date AH 706 / AD 1307, possibly a later addition. It contains the following maps: Arabia (Hijaz, Yemen and the Gulf); Egypt; the Mediterranean (Bahr-i Rum); Iraq (central and upper Mesopotamia); Khuzistan; Fars;Kirman; Sind; lower Mesopotamia and western Iran (‘Iraq-i ‘Ajam); Tabaristan; the Caspian; the central Iranian desert between Fars andKhurasan;Khurasan; Central Asia, from Transcaspia to beyond Bukhara; Ceylon (Sarandib), with Adam’s Peak and the west coast of India. The map of Sind is a later replacement, and a number of maps announced in the text are now missing. They were obviously lost when the original manuscript was unbound, perhaps for repairs, and the remaining folios rebound in the wrong order.
نص عينة	dated AH 706 (AD 1306–7).
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Qaisra KHAN
Seçili bibliyografya	Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: cat.198, pp. 166-167.

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Kitab al-Masalik wa’l-Mamalik of al-Istakhri

المؤلف Written by al-Istakhri

تاريخ النشر AH 706 / AD 1306–07

مكان النشر Iran, perhaps Isfahan -

الموضوع Ilkhanids — ink, gold, silver and opaque watercolour on paper; contemporary leather binding

النوع kitap

اللغة غير محدد

رقمي نعم

مخطوط نعم

الأبعاد الفيزيائية 25cm x 15cm

المكتبة Museum With No Frontiers

معرف أصل المكتبة MSS 972

رقم السجل GalEx6_uk_Mus82_3

موقع المكتبة Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art

التاريخ AH 706 / AD 1306–07

ملاحظات The AH 4th / AD 10th-century Persian geographer al-Istakhri was one of the most important figures in the evolution of Arab cartography. He travelled widely, but his account of Arabia (Hijaz, Yemen and the Gulf) is curiously sketchy, particularly given the importance of the Pilgrimage. This is partly because, as the title of this treatise,Kitabal-masalik wa’l-mamalik(‘the book of postal routes and kingdoms’), suggests, it is based on lists of stations on the postal routes of theAbbasidheartlands and in Iran, which were not available for Arabia and Egypt.In its present state the manuscript is incomplete. It opens with a splendid page of illumination in gold and silver, and on the penultimate page (folio 120a) is a colophon with the date AH 706 / AD 1307, possibly a later addition. It contains the following maps: Arabia (Hijaz, Yemen and the Gulf); Egypt; the Mediterranean (Bahr-i Rum); Iraq (central and upper Mesopotamia); Khuzistan; Fars;Kirman; Sind; lower Mesopotamia and western Iran (‘Iraq-i ‘Ajam); Tabaristan; the Caspian; the central Iranian desert between Fars andKhurasan;Khurasan; Central Asia, from Transcaspia to beyond Bukhara; Ceylon (Sarandib), with Adam’s Peak and the west coast of India. The map of Sind is a later replacement, and a number of maps announced in the text are now missing. They were obviously lost when the original manuscript was unbound, perhaps for repairs, and the remaining folios rebound in the wrong order.

نص عينة dated AH 706 (AD 1306–7).

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Qaisra KHAN

Seçili bibliyografya Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: cat.198, pp. 166-167.