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‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad قزويني، زكريا بن محمد [120v] (240/270)
The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. 135. It was created in c 1300. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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The London Qazwīnī. Encyclopaedic work on cosmology by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, 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):
كتاب عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب
الموجودات
ألفه زكريا بن محمد بن
محمود القزويني تولاه الله
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
العظمة لك الكبرياء الجلائك الله يا قائم الذات والفيض الخيرات واجب والوجود ورا […]
العقول وفاطر الأرض والسموات مبدي الحركة والزمان ومبدع الحين والمكان وجا عن [...]
النور والظلمات ...
Ends (f. 135v, lines 5-6):
[…]ـستان بشرهما وإذا بعد عنه الصقهما بالحـ[…]
[…] الطيار فإن الثعالب كانت طيارة في […]
Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 135v, lines 7-8):
هذا آخر الكتاب والحمد لله وجلّه وصلى الله على سـ[…]
نقل هذا الكتاب من خط المصنف
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- Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. 135
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 300 x 192 mm leaf [248 x 165 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah ?; 25 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: Illuminated title page (f. 1r); 368 paintings
Binding: None
Condition: Many leaves damaged and repaired; each leaf individually encased in plastic sheeting, framed in card and held in eight boxes
Marginalia: Very few
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