المؤلف
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Idrīsī al-Qurṭubī
تاريخ النشر
Early 19th century (CE, Gregorian)
الموضوع
1
النوع
كتاب
اللغة
العربية
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
نعم
عدد الصفحات
1
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
232x 168mm
المكتبة
مكتبة قطر الرقمية
معرف أصل المكتبة
Or 4636
رقم السجل
vdc_100110633422.0x000001
موقع المكتبة
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
التاريخ
Early 19th century (CE, Gregorian)
ملاحظات
An abridgement, without maps, of the
Book of Pleasant Journeys into Faraway Lands
(نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق) completed in 1157 or 58 by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Idrīsī al-Qurṭubī (أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي القرطبي, c.1100-1166) and also known as the
Kitāb Rujār
(
Book of Roger
) for its patron, King Roger II of Sicily (reg. 1112-54).
The abridgement copied in the present manuscript was one of the first Arabic books to be printed in Europe [Al-Idrīsī,
De Geographia Universali: Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī dhikr al-amṣār wa-al-aqṭār wa-al-buldān wa-al-juzur wa-al-madāʼin wa-al-āfāq
(Rome: Medici Press, 1592)], with its Latin translation published soon afterwards [Idrīsī,
Geographia nubiensis: id est accuratissima totius orbis in septem climata divisi descriptio, continens praesertim exactam vniuersae Asiae, & Africae, rerumq[ue] in ijs hactenus incognitarum explicationem
, translated by Gabriel Sionita and Joannes Hesronita (Paris: Hieronymi Blageart, 1619)].
The Nuzhat follows the cartographical tradition laid out by al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي, fl. 813-846) in his
Kitāb Ṣūrat al-Arḍ
consisting of a postulated world map and lists of co-ordinates of locations in the known world, arranged into seven climes (أقاليم), with each clime subdivided into ten sections (جزء). Al-Idrīsī cites Ptolemy via al-Khwārizmī, as well as numerous Arab geographers of earlier periods.
Contents:
Introduction (ff. 1v-4r);
The First Clime (الإقليم الأول, ff. 4r-18v);
The Second Clime (الإقليم الثاني, ff. 18v-33r);
The Third Clime (الإقليم الثالث, ff. 33r-71v);
The Fourth Clime (الإقليم الرابع, ff. 71v-105r);
The Fifth Clime (الإقليم الخامس, ff. 105r-124v);
The Sixth Clime (الإقليم السادس, ff. 124v-136v);
The Seventh Clime (الإقليم السابع, ff. 136v-139v).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 1-6):
وبه الاعانة
الحمد لله رب العالمين أما بعد فإني وقفت على الكتاب
المسمي بنزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق وتأملت معانيه
ومقاصده واستحسنت مصادره وموارده إلا أنه أكثر القول
وأعاد ونقص من ذكر بعض الأقاليم وزاد على حسب ما أحب
وأراد فأخذت من كلامه ما وافق المراد...
Ends (f. 139v, lines 14-17):
الجزء العاشر من الإقليم السابع
إن هذا الجزء العاشر من اللإقليم السابع كله بحر
مظلم لا عمارة فيه البتة ولا يعلم
ما خلفه...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 139v, lines 17-22):
... فهذا جميع ما اتصل
بنا من أوصاف أقطار
الأرض من معمور
ومغمور فتبارك
الله رب
العالمين
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 685, p. 467
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from the heirs of Edward William Lane, 14 March 1893
Köken
Edward William Lane (1801-76), bought for 50 piastres (
recto
The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'.
of second unfoliated flyleaf [ii-r])
Erased and illegible ownership note and stamp (f. 1r)
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Al-Idrīsī,
De Geographia Universali: Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī dhikr al-amṣār wa-al-aqṭār wa-al-buldān wa-al-juzur wa-al-madāʼin wa-al-āfāq
(Rome: Medici Press, 1592), reprinted as
Kitāb nuzhat al-mushtāq
, Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science. Islamic Geography, Vol. 1 (Frankfurt: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1992)
Translation:
Idrīsī,
Geographia nubiensis: id est accuratissima totius orbis in septem climata divisi descriptio, continens praesertim exactam vniuersae Asiae, & Africae, rerumq[ue] in ijs hactenus incognitarum explicationem
, translated by Gabriel Sionita and Joannes Hesronita (Paris: Hieronymi Blageart, 1619).
Editions of full text of
Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq
:
Idrīsī,
Opus geographicum sive "Liber ad eorum delectationem qui terras peragrare studeant"
, edited by Enrico Cerulli et al., 9 vols (Naples, Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 1970-84)
Idrīsī,
Al-Sharīf al-Idrīsī. Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq
, edited by Ibrāhīm Khūrī (Abu Dhabi: Markaz Zāʾid lil-Turāth wa-al-Tārīkh, 2000)
