Author
Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī
Publication Date
c 1300 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Place
Mosul? -
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
300 x 192 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 14140
Record ID
vdc_100023586788.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
c 1300 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The London Qazwīnī. Encyclopaedic work on cosmology by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (Zakaria ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Qazwini, d. 1283). The text is lavishly illustrated with 368 paintings.
In the undated
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 135v, lines 7-8; transcribed below) the anonymous scribe claims to have copied the text from an autograph copy (i.e. a copy written by the hand of the author).
Title page reads (f. 1r):
A book of wonders and curiosities
Assets
Written by Zakaria bin Muhammad bin
Mahmoud Al-Qazwini, may God protect him
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
Greatness belongs to you, glory be to you, God is the One who exists, and the abundance of good deeds is necessary, and existence is behind […]
Minds, the Creator of the earth and the heavens, the Creator of movement and time, the Creator of time and place, and He came from [...]
Light and darkness...
Ends (f. 135v, lines 5-6):
[...]
[…] The pilot, the foxes were pilots in […]
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 135v, lines 7-8):
This is the end of the book, and praise be to God Almighty, and may God’s prayers and peace be upon [...]
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Edition:
al-Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad,
Kitāb ‘ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt
(Miṣr: Maṭba‘at al-Taqaddum)
Study:
Carboni, Stefano,
The 'Wonders of Creation'. A Study of the Ilkhanid 'London Qazwini'
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
