Author
anonymous
Subject
Islamic countries--Description and travel; Geography, Medieval
Type
Document
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
202
Physical Dimensions
97ff. Leaf height: 31.5 cm, width: 23 cm.
Library
Cambridge Digital Library
Record ID
MS-BROWNE-K-00001
Library Location
Cambridge University Library — K. 1
Date
probably 16th/17th C. The manuscript is undated.-1600-1500
Notes
A Persian treatise on Geography. The work appears to have been translated from the Arabic original of which the authorship is uncertain. The date is indicated by two passages on f. 11v and 13v, where Spain is spoken of as "still in the hands of the Umayyads", and as ruled by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān III, Caliph of Cordova, 891-961, who reigned 912-961 and who adopted the title of caliph in 929 CE (317 AH). The mention of numerous fire-temples in Fars also points to an early date, for example on f. 33r : ذکر آتشکدهای فارس ، هیج ناحیتی و روستائی نیست که نه درو آتش گاهی هست آنچه بزرگترست و معروفتر ازآن یاد کنیم،. This copy of the manuscript is imperfect at the beginning and end. There are certainly some dislocations and some of the leaves at the end should be at the beginning. The regions are treated in the following order: Arabia on f. 1r and from f. 95 to 97v, The Maghrib and North West Spain on f. 11r, Egypt on f. 15r, Syria on f. 17r, Mesopotamia on f. 19r, Iraq on f. 21v, Khuzistan on f. 26r, The Mediterranean Sea on 27r, Fars including an account of the fire temples on f. 30r, Khuzistan on f. 40r, Kurdistan on f. 42r, Transoxiana on f. 60r, Khwarizm on f. 83r.
Sample Text
Incipit: And from there it is two miles to the sea and it is also Jund Fid Fid in the province of Bani Tay
Edinme
Bequest of E. G. Browne.
Veri Kaynağı
Manuscript description based on. R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932. K.1
Süsleme
Schematic maps of the following regionsf. 5r The Persian Gulf f. 9r Western Mediterranean, Spain and North Africa f. 16v Syria f. 19r Region of the Tigris and Ehphrates بحر محیط f. 22r Iraq f. 28r Mediterranean f. 38r South West Persia f. 41v Fars f. 43r North East Persia f. 48v to 49r Khurasan and Transoxiana f. 60v to 61r Khwarizm, Sughd, etc. (Eastern Central Asia) f. 87v to 88r Map of the Old World from Spain to China f. 94v The Arabian Peninsula
Format
Codex
Fonlama
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH)
Mizanpaj
ca. 15 lines to the page
Menşei
The style of script suggest that the production of manuscript is probably 16th/17th C. The manuscript is undated.
Yazı Tipi
Written in a large and generally clear ta'liq but many diacritical points are omitted, so that the reading of place-names is often very uncertain.
Edinme Türü
acquisition
Yüzyıl 1
1500s C.E.
Yüzyıl 2
1600s C.E.
Oluşturma Tarihi (Bağlantı Türü)
keyword search
Tarih Aralığı
[1500 TO 1600]
Oluşturma Türü
creation
Yıl (Bitiş)
1600
Yıl (Başlangıç)
1500
Görüntü Hakları (Görüntüleme)
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Dil 1
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