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A page with two miniatures from a Persian translation of “The Wonders of Creatures and the Oddities of Existences” by Zakaria al-Qazwini
(صفحة ذات منمنتين من ترجمة فارسية لعجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات بقلم زكريا القزويني)

Title	A page with two miniatures from a Persian translation of “The Wonders of Creatures and the Oddities of Existences” by Zakaria al-Qazwini
Title Original	صفحة ذات منمنتين من ترجمة فارسية لعجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات بقلم زكريا القزويني
Author	unknown
Author Original	مجهول
Publication Date:	Sixteenth century AD
Publication Place	Iran - Khninko Museum
Subject	Paints and ink on paper — Anonymous
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	الطول : 11.5 سم ، العرض : 11.5 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	448 ГРВ
Record ID	object;EPM;uc;Mus21;3;ar
Library Location	Khninko Museum
Date	Sixteenth century AD
Notes	This fragment is a page from a Persian translation of a popular treatise on the universe, “The Wonders of Creatures and the Oddities of Existences,” by Zakariya Ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini. This book was written in the thirteenth century and covers the fields of geography, astronomy, horoscopes, and natural history in a mixture of science and myth. Both sides of the page are decorated with miniatures of fruit-bearing trees.
Sample Text	“A page with two miniatures from a Persian translation of “The Wonders of Creatures and Oddities of Existences” by Zakaria Al-Qazwini” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uc;Mus21;3;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Antonina MAKAREVYCH,Hanna RUDYK
Seçili bibliyografya	Berlekamp, Persis,Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.Bilenko, H. and Rudyck (Rudyk), H.,Oriental Collection, guidebook, Kyiv: The Khanenko Museum, 2005.Krachkovskaya, V., "Musulmsnskoye iskusstvo v sobranii Khanenko (Muslim Art from the Khanenkos' Collection)", in Bartold V.V. (ed),Zapyski Kollegii Vostokovedov (Notes of the College of Orientalists)at Asian Museum of USSR Academy of Sciences, Vol II, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1927.Newman, Andrew (ed),Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East: Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period, Leiden: Brill, 2003.Vyazmitina, M. (ed),Mystetstvo krain islamu (Art from Islamic Countries), catalogue, VUAN Museum of Art, Kyiv: All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1930.

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A page with two miniatures from a Persian translation of “The Wonders of Creatures and the Oddities of Existences” by Zakaria al-Qazwini

(صفحة ذات منمنتين من ترجمة فارسية لعجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات بقلم زكريا القزويني)

Author unknown

Author Original مجهول

Publication Date Sixteenth century AD

Publication Place Iran - Khninko Museum

Subject Paints and ink on paper — Anonymous

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions الطول : 11.5 سم ، العرض : 11.5 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 448 ГРВ

Record ID object;EPM;uc;Mus21;3;ar

Library Location Khninko Museum

Date Sixteenth century AD

Notes This fragment is a page from a Persian translation of a popular treatise on the universe, “The Wonders of Creatures and the Oddities of Existences,” by Zakariya Ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini. This book was written in the thirteenth century and covers the fields of geography, astronomy, horoscopes, and natural history in a mixture of science and myth. Both sides of the page are decorated with miniatures of fruit-bearing trees.

Sample Text “A page with two miniatures from a Persian translation of “The Wonders of Creatures and Oddities of Existences” by Zakaria Al-Qazwini” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uc;Mus21;3;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Antonina MAKAREVYCH,Hanna RUDYK

Seçili bibliyografya Berlekamp, Persis,Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.Bilenko, H. and Rudyck (Rudyk), H.,Oriental Collection, guidebook, Kyiv: The Khanenko Museum, 2005.Krachkovskaya, V., "Musulmsnskoye iskusstvo v sobranii Khanenko (Muslim Art from the Khanenkos' Collection)", in Bartold V.V. (ed),Zapyski Kollegii Vostokovedov (Notes of the College of Orientalists)at Asian Museum of USSR Academy of Sciences, Vol II, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1927.Newman, Andrew (ed),Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East: Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period, Leiden: Brill, 2003.Vyazmitina, M. (ed),Mystetstvo krain islamu (Art from Islamic Countries), catalogue, VUAN Museum of Art, Kyiv: All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1930.