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Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-gharāʼib / li-Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Wardī al-mutawaffá 749
(خريدة العجائب وفريدة الغرائب لزين الدين عمر بن المظفر بن الوردي المتوفى )

Title Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-gharāʼib / li-Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Wardī al-mutawaffá 749
Title Original خريدة العجائب وفريدة الغرائب لزين الدين عمر بن المظفر بن الوردي المتوفى
Author Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, -1349
Author Original Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, -1349
Publication Place - [16--?]
Subject Cosmography, Geography, Arab, Qiblah—Charts, diagrams, etc—Specimens, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, Manuscript maps—Mediterranean Region—17th century, Maps—Mediterranean Region—17th century, World maps—17th century, Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—17th century, Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—17th century
Type Book
Language ar
Digital Yes
Manuscript Yes
Library: Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID 9955142333506421
Record ID 7d278t07w
Library Location HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 267B, HSVM Electronic Resource, ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 267B, ELF1 Electronic Resource
Date 01-01-1600 T00:00:00 AH/12-31-1699 T:Khas:Khasz — 1600-1699
Notes Fifteenth century Arabic cosmography, ascribed to Ibn al-Wardi (fl. ca. 822/1419). On the disputed authorship, see Sellheim, R. Materialen zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte, t. I, no. 49. | Ms. codex., Title from title page (fol. 1a, later hand)., Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red (gold on fol.1b-2a). The text is vocalized. Some yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. The text is framed within a border in gold outlined in black. European paper with watermark. Occasional marginal annotation. Title on tail of text block (hardly legible)., Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each leaf., Decoration: Illuminated scalloped mandorla, executed in gold, blue, and colors on fol 1a. Illuminated headpiece with basmalah in gold on fol. 1b., Illustration 1: Mappa mundi on fol. 3b-4a, circular, executed in gold, blue, green, red, and gold., Illustration 2 : Map of the Kaʻbah surrounded by the miḥrāb for different regions on fol. 43b., Origin: The illuminations suggest the 11th/17th cent., Incipit: بسم ... قل لا يعلم من في السموات والارض الغيب الا الله الحمد لله غافر الذنب قابل التوب شديد العقاب عالم الغيب ... [2أ] ... وبعد فان خالق الخلق والبرية ومن له الارادة والمشيئة قد ميز الملوك, Explicit: وهذه خاتمة الارجوزه وما حوت من حكم عزيزه والحمد لله على تمامها حمدا يصوع المسك فى ختامها | Brown leather over paper pasteboards. Central gold stamped scalloped mandorla, with floral motif left plain. The outer border consists of blind and gold tooled fillets and guilloche. Rebacked. | Ownership statement in the name of Ismāʻīl, qāḍī in Baghdād on fol. 1a, with seal. Another erased ownership statement with seal on the same fol. Erased seal on fol. 29b. Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925. | Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 770, Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 131/8 ; SII, Sellheim, R. Materialen zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte. Teil I (1976), no. 49
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Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-gharāʼib / li-Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Wardī al-mutawaffá 749

(خريدة العجائب وفريدة الغرائب لزين الدين عمر بن المظفر بن الوردي المتوفى )
Author Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, -1349
Author Original Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, -1349
Publication Place - [16--?]
Subject Cosmography, Geography, Arab, Qiblah—Charts, diagrams, etc—Specimens, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, Manuscript maps—Mediterranean Region—17th century, Maps—Mediterranean Region—17th century, World maps—17th century, Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—17th century, Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—17th century
Type Book
Language ar
Digital Yes
Manuscript Yes
Library Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID 9955142333506421
Record ID 7d278t07w
Library Location HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 267B, HSVM Electronic Resource, ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 267B, ELF1 Electronic Resource
Date 01-01-1600 T00:00:00 AH/12-31-1699 T:Khas:Khasz — 1600-1699
Notes Fifteenth century Arabic cosmography, ascribed to Ibn al-Wardi (fl. ca. 822/1419). On the disputed authorship, see Sellheim, R. Materialen zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte, t. I, no. 49. | Ms. codex., Title from title page (fol. 1a, later hand)., Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red (gold on fol.1b-2a). The text is vocalized. Some yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. The text is framed within a border in gold outlined in black. European paper with watermark. Occasional marginal annotation. Title on tail of text block (hardly legible)., Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each leaf., Decoration: Illuminated scalloped mandorla, executed in gold, blue, and colors on fol 1a. Illuminated headpiece with basmalah in gold on fol. 1b., Illustration 1: Mappa mundi on fol. 3b-4a, circular, executed in gold, blue, green, red, and gold., Illustration 2 : Map of the Kaʻbah surrounded by the miḥrāb for different regions on fol. 43b., Origin: The illuminations suggest the 11th/17th cent., Incipit: بسم ... قل لا يعلم من في السموات والارض الغيب الا الله الحمد لله غافر الذنب قابل التوب شديد العقاب عالم الغيب ... [2أ] ... وبعد فان خالق الخلق والبرية ومن له الارادة والمشيئة قد ميز الملوك, Explicit: وهذه خاتمة الارجوزه وما حوت من حكم عزيزه والحمد لله على تمامها حمدا يصوع المسك فى ختامها | Brown leather over paper pasteboards. Central gold stamped scalloped mandorla, with floral motif left plain. The outer border consists of blind and gold tooled fillets and guilloche. Rebacked. | Ownership statement in the name of Ismāʻīl, qāḍī in Baghdād on fol. 1a, with seal. Another erased ownership statement with seal on the same fol. Erased seal on fol. 29b. Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925. | Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 770, Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 131/8 ; SII, Sellheim, R. Materialen zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte. Teil I (1976), no. 49
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