Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīḍat al-gharāʼib.

Title:

Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīḍat al-gharāʼib.
خريدة العجائب و فريضة الغرائب

Creator:

Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, -1457

Date:

between 1450 and 1550?

Description:

Cosmography containing a compendium of place names, seas, and mountains; information on flora and fauna; and a brief explanation of the game of chess. This text has also been attributed to the 14th-century author Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Wardī.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, 15th century
Manuscripts, 16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Codices (bound manuscripts)
World maps
Diagrams
Annotations (Provenance)
Early works
Cosmography--Early works to 1800
Chess--Early works to 1800
Chess
Cosmography

Provenance:

Ownership inscription dated 1090/1679 (inside lower cover); later inscriptions in a maghribi hand including the name Ibn al-Maʼmūn (inside upper cover); sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, December 2009.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Extent:

Written in 15 long lines (f. 1r-79v) and 17 long lines (f. 80r-267v).

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania

Rights:

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Identifier:

LJS 495

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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