Main Heritage Shelves General Manuscripts Item-ID: i26281004 BIB-ID: 2801851 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General Manuscripts Item-ID: i26281004 BIB-ID: 2801851 Show less
Folio from The Wonderful and Weird among Creatures and Beings' Zakarīyā bin Maḥmūd al-Qazwinī (d. 682 AH/1283 CE) 700s AH/1300s CE This frequently... Show moreFolio from The Wonderful and Weird among Creatures and Beings' Zakarīyā bin Maḥmūd al-Qazwinī (d. 682 AH/1283 CE) 700s AH/1300s CE This frequently illustrated treatise was immensely popular. Al-Qazwinī mentions 50 sources for the work, which gives descriptions of the creatures of the heavens world, he describes the earth the origins and types of wind, and the land and its inhabitants of all kinds. Zakarya Qazvini (1203– 1283) was a physician, astronomer, geo grapherand proto-science fiction writer of Arab descent Main Heritage Display General HC.MS. Manuscripts Item-ID: i26350051 BIB-ID: 2813601 Show less
اعتمدت هذه التسجيلة المؤقتة على الفهرسة الأولية السابقة للمجموعة. Arabic manuscript on paper, 54 leaves, first treatise incomplete at beginning,... Show moreاعتمدت هذه التسجيلة المؤقتة على الفهرسة الأولية السابقة للمجموعة. Arabic manuscript on paper, 54 leaves, first treatise incomplete at beginning, approximately 19-21 lines to the page written in a cursive script and small nasta'liq script in black ink, significant words picked out in red ink, second treatise with some diagrams and tables, edges frayed and browned, discoloration, later green cotton binding faded and stained, small tears 185 x 140 mm. FOOTNOTES Provenance The collection of the late Jafar Ghazi. First work: see B.A. Rosenfeld & E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and their Works (7th–19th C.), Istanbul 2003, pp. 283–285, no. 842, A 1. Second work: the author was from Tripoli, Libya, an Ottoman mathematician and astronomer. See Rosenfeld & Ihsanoglu, pp. 336–337, no. 1008, A5. Third work: the Author was born in Mardin, southern Turkey, and was a mu'adhdhin at the Ummayad Mosque in Damascus. See Rosenfeld & Ihsanoglu, p. 261, 775. Main Heritage Shelves General HC.MS.2018.0051 Manuscripts Item-ID: i25553513 BIB-ID: 2695034 اللغة العربية؛ خط النسخ Show less
possibly on genealogy, Arabic manuscript on paper, a number of texts bound together, each folio of the main section with 15ll. of black naksh,... Show morepossibly on genealogy, Arabic manuscript on paper, a number of texts bound together, each folio of the main section with 15ll. of black naksh, important words and headings picked out in red, numerous diagrams, the end of three texts with an added date of AH 775, later marginal notes throughout, in paper boards. Iran or Eastern Mediterranean, probably 14th Century اعتمدت هذه التسجيلة المؤقتة على الفهرسة الأولية السابقة للمجموعة. Main Heritage Shelves General HC.MS.02426 Manuscripts Item-ID: i24974146 BIB-ID: 2670223 Show less