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‘The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century’ [293] (346/388)
The record is made up of 1 volume (327 pages). It was created in 1800. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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APPENDIX, No. HI.
!93
No. III.
The following extract from the ancient Chronicle of Tabari
is referred to in the Preface, page x, and may serve to illustrate
Ebn Haukal's account of the Hamyaritick inscription on the gate
of Samarcand. See p. 254, and 287.
The transactions here recorded are said to have happened early
in the sixth century, when Cobad, the Persian monarch, was slain,
and his dominions invaded and plundered by the Arabs, under
Samar, a nephew of the Tobba, or king of Yemen. The account
of this invasion, and of Cobad's death, as related by Tabari, with
a literal translation, will be found in the Oriental Collections,
vol. iii. p. 150; where I have given it as a specimen of the most
pure and ancient Parsi. The original Chronicle of Tabari was
written in the Arabick language; and this Persian translation
was made in the year of the Hegira 352, (A. D. 9^3), by a vizier
of the Samanian princes*, who inserted many curious traditions
and observations of his own. See the Preface, p. xii.
* D'Herbelot, Bibliot. Orient. Art. Tarikh and Thabari.
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The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century , translated from the author’s own manuscript, and collated with one preserved at the Library of Eton College by Sir William Ouseley.
Publication details: Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co., Wild-Court, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, for T Cadell Junior and W Davies, Strand, London, 1800.
Physical description: One volume, initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xxxvi), 327 pages, fold-out map.
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- 1 volume (327 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is an alphabetic index at the back of the volume.
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Dimensions: 280mm x 220mm.
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- ‘The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:38, 1:328, v-r:vii-v, back-i
- Author
- Ouseley, Sir William
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