Basım Tarihi
1200-1300 (undated)
Tür
Belge
Dil
Arapça
Dijital
Evet
Yazma
Evet
Fiziksel Boyutlar
33.5 cm x 26.5 cm x 5 cm (height x width x depth)
Kütüphane
Chester Beatty
Kayıt Numarası
Ar 3007
Lokasyon
Arabic collection
Tarih
1200-1300 (undated)
Notlar
Ṣuwar al-aqālīm, by al-Istakhrī. Codex, ink and colours on paper, 205 folios, leather bookbinding with gold decoration, Arabic text in naskh script with main title and image captions in large angular script, with 21 labelled maps, each with red silk thread piercing the folio (or traces of this, added as a page-marker system), Forms of the geographical regions or zones (Ṣuwar al-aqālīm) also known as Book of routes and realms (Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik), by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī al-Iṣṭakhrī (active c. 950, alternatively named here on title page as Abū al-`Abbās Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm), introductory chapter providing global overview (fol. 1r: circular table of latitude zones, in Persian, fol. 4r: world map and surrounding ocean, Ṣūrat al-arḍ wa al-Baḥr al-Muḥīṭ), followed by 20 chapters describing 20 regions, covering physical geography, urban centres, cultural history, and inter-city distances, each with full page regional map: (1: fol. 12v) Arabia (Diyār al-`Arab), (2: fol. 24v), Persian Sea (Ṣūra Baḥr Fāris), (3: fol. 29v) North Africa (Ṣūrat al-Maghrib), (4: fol. 37v) Egypt (Diyār Miṣr), (5: fol. 42v) Syria (Ṣūrat al-Shām), (6: fol. 51v) Mediterranean Sea (Ṣūra Baḥr al-Rūm), (7: fol. 54r) al-Jazira, northern Iraq (Ṣūrat al-Jazīra), (8: fol. 58r) Iraq (Ṣūrat al-`Irāq), (9: fol. 64v) Khuzistan (Ṣūra Khūzistān), (10: fol. 69v) Fars (Ṣūra Fārs), (11: fol. 97v) Kerman province (Ṣūra Kermān), (12: fol. 103r) Sind (Ṣūrat al-Sind), (13: fol. 109v) Azerbaijan (Ṣūrat al-Adharbayjān), (14: fol. 118r) Jibal (Ṣūrat al-Jibāl), (15: fol. 124r) Daylam (Ṣūrat al-Daylam), (16: fol. 131r) Caspian Sea (Baḥr al-Khazar), (17: fol. 138r) Desert between Fars and Khurasan (Ṣūrat mufāza Fārs wa Khurāsān), (18: fol. 145r) Sijistān (Ṣūra Sijistān), (19: fol. 152v) Khurasan (Ṣūra Khurāsān), (20: fols. 168v-169r) Transoxiana (Ṣūra mā warā al-nahr), colophon (fol. 204v) unsigned, possibly Iraq or Iran, undated, c. 1200-1300.
Materyal
Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Leather (material), Gold, Silk
Nesne Adı
Codex
Yazı Tipi
Naskh script