ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt.

Title:

ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt.
عجائب المخلوقات

Creator:

Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

A.H. 1243 (1827)

Description:

Copy of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt in Persian with diagrams and many color illustrations showing constellations, animals, plants, creatures and other wonders; the Arabic in the text is overlined in red.

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Persian
Manuscripts, Oriental
Manuscripts, 19th century
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts (documents)
Illuminations (painting)
Miniatures (paintings)
Full covers
Cosmography--Early works to 1800
Geography, Arab--Early works to 1800
Zoology--Pre-Linnean works

Geographic region:

India?

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate inside front cover).Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

Extent:

23 long lines; border-ruled; catchwords in the bottom left of the textblock; marginal headings.

Publisher:

Free Library of Philadelphia

Rights:

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Identifier:

Lewis O 41

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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