Author
ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Bakuwī
Publication Date
11 Ramaḍān 803 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
150 x 108mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 8350
Record ID
vdc_100110633651.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
11 Ramaḍān 803 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Notes
Acephalous copy of an abstract by 'Abd al-Rashīd ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Bakuwī (Abd al-Rashid ibn Saleh al-Bakuwī, active 14th-15th centuries) of
Monuments of places and reports of the peoples
(Athar al-Blad wa Akhbar al-'Abbad) by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (Zakariya ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Qazwīnī, d. 1283). To the text of the abstract, known in full as
Talkhīṣ al-Āthār wa-ʿajāʾib al-Malik al-Qahhār
(Tlkhas al-Athar wa'jaib al-Mulk al-Qahar), al-Bakuwī added the extra details of longitudes and latitudes for the locations in the text.
The present copy was completed on Tuesday 11 Ramadan 803/25 April 1401 by an unnamed scribe. It lacks the preface, the introduction to the climes, and the first 31 entries for the First Clime, opening towards the end of the entry for Ṣanʿāʾ (Sanâa). The entries for Bayḍāʾ (بيضاء) and Tins (تنس) of the Third Clime are missing, and have been added in the margin by another hand (ff. 20r-20v). Orthographic errors, especially in place names, are encountered throughout, while several entries are written out of order: see the entry for Lattakia and marginal note, ff. 37r-37v, or Bukhārā (بخارا)/Bajānah (بجانة) in the Fifth Clime, added in the wrong order (ff. 77v-78r).
The copy has been foliated using the
abjad
(Arabic alphanumeric) system in an unusual position (outer edge of
verse
The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'.
head margins). This foliation continues throughout a section of misbound text (pp. 47-52 and see notes in the head margins of ff. 1r, 47r, and 53r) suggesting it was added at the time of or after the rebinding. The
abjad
foliation begins with يب (12) on f. 2v (numbering does not remain on f. 1v due to a repair) indicating the loss of ten folios of text - one quinion
quire
Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios.
- from the beginning of the volume.
Contents:
[The First Clime] ([The First Clime], ff. 1r-4r);
The Second Clime (Second Clime, ff. 4r-14r);
The Third Clime (The Third Clime, ff. 14r-44r);
The Fourth Clime (Fourth Region, f. 44r-46v, 53r-73v and 47r-52v);
The Fifth Clime (Al-Iqlim al-Khams, ff. 73v-92v);
The Sixth Clime (al-Iqlim al-Sads, ff. 92v-103v);
The Seventh Clime (Al-Iqlim al-Sab', ff. 103v-107r).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-4):
It is the white German night and it is a kind of light
Like the value of the world and the map of the calcium of China
Large country in the east extending from the first region to the region
الثالث... الثالث.
Ends (ff. 107r, lines 12- 107v, line 3):
...and cut me off from her and if I have nothing to do with it
The sea from your sword does not come out of them
Allah knows best about that, but this is the last thing we mentioned in the narration of the works and praise be to Allah
Lord of the Worlds and blessings be upon the Prophet Muhammad
وآله الطيبين.
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 107v, lines 3-6):
...the vacancy
From Tuesday's edition
The tenth day of Ramadan
سنة ثلاث وثمانمائة
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from Ḥājjī ‘Abd al-Majīd Belshah (d. 1923), 8 November 1919
Köken
Various notes, one with date 6 Shawwāl 953/30 November 1546 (f. 107v)
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
al-Bākuwī, ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn Ṣāliḥ,
Kitāb talkhīṣ al-athār wa-ʻajāʼib al-Malik al-Qahhār
, ed. by Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn ibn Mūsá Būniyātūf (Mūskū: Dār al-Nashr al-ʻIlm, Idārat al-Taḥrīrah al-Raʼīsīyah lil-Ādāb al-Sharqīsyah, 1971)
Translation:
De Guignes, Joseph, 'Exposition de ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable sur la terre et des merveilles du Roi Tout-Puissant, par Abdorraschid, fils de Saleh, fils de Nouri, surnommé Yakouti; ouvrage de géographie, composé dans le XVe siecle, Manuscrit Arabe, no. 585' in
Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi: lûs au Comité établi par Sa Majesté dans l'Académie royale des inscriptions & belles-lettres
, II (Paris: Bibliothèque royale, 1789), pp. 386-545
