Islamic Arabic 687 (Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Kharīdat al-ʿajāʾib wa-farīdat al-ghāraʾib by Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar, -1457

Author: Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar, -1457 ابن الوردي، زين الدين ابو حفص بن عمر

Title: Kharīdat al-ʿajāʾib wa-farīdat al-ghāraʾib

Title: خريدة العجائب وفريدة الفرائب

Map of Mecca on fol. 55v; appears to be incomplete.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Printed catalogue no. 891

GAL II 131-2; II 162-3

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 141 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 20.5 × 14.7 cm.

Dimensions (written):

Foliation:

Layout

15 lines per page

Hand(s)

Written in Naskhī of probably the 16th century.

Decoration

History

Origin: Undated, reader's note of 1018 AH

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on H. L. Gottschalk et al.: Islamic Arabic Manuscripts. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts. Vol. IV. Revised edition edited by Derek Hopwood. Birmingham: Selly Oak Colleges, 1985, with additional enhancements.

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cadbury Research Library

Subjects

Cosmography

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