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ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt

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Title
ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt
Additional title: عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات
Names
New York Public Library, Spencer Coll. Pers. ms. 45.
New York Public Library. Spencer Collection
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283 (Author)
Sarre, Friedrich Paul Theodor, 1865-1945 (Former owner)
Bashīʼī, Muḥammad (Former owner)
قزويني: زكريا بن محمد،, approximately 1203-1283 (Author)
بشيئي: محمد، (Former owner)
Dates / Origin
Other Date: circa 1650.
Place: [Eastern Anatolia?],
Library locations
Spencer Collection
Shelf locator: Spencer Coll. MS Pers. 45
Topics
1600-1699
Cosmography
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab -- Turkey -- 17th century
Manuscripts, Arabic -- New York (State) -- New York
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab
Manuscripts, Arabic
Genres
illuminated manuscripts
naskhī
early works
Early works to 1800
Miniatures (Paintings)
leather bindings (bookbindings)
Headpieces (layout features)
Notes
Citation/reference: Islamic Manuscripts in the New York Public Library, (ed.) Barbara Schmitz (NYPL / Oxford University Press, 1992), pages 7-13.
Statement of responsibility: Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī.
Content: Ms. codex
Content: Possibly copied in the Ottoman lands, possibly eastern Anatolia.
Content: Incomplete. Spencer portion is misbound.
Content: Eighty-three additional folios with miniatures are at the National Museum of Asian Art (formerly the Freer Gallery of Art), F1954.33 to F1954.114 and F1957.13.
Content: Most likely copied circa 1650.
Content: Physical description : Thick cream paper with extensive marginal repairs, fraying edges, and stains (largely restricted to margines). 143 folios. 23 lines. Clear black Naskh with headings in larger black thuluth. Important phrases are written in colored inks. Rulings in black and gold. One illuminated heading (folios 1b) with the Basmalah written in gold thuluth superimposed on gold floral rinceaux with accents of lapis blue and red.
Preferred citation: NYPL. Spencer Collection Pers. ms. 45.
Funding: Preservation and access were made possible by the generous support of Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos.
Language: Arabic; Naskh script.
Statement of responsibility: زكريا بن محمد القزويني.
Physical Description
Extent: 143 leaves :paper, ink , miniatures ;327 x 224 mm (252 x 174 mm)
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
Arabic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 1561187371
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b23799469
Barcode: 33433137901876
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d27469b0-6c01-013f-1cad-0242ac110002
Rights Statement
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