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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of ʻAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt by Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1203-1283

Author: Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1203-1283 قزوينی، زكريا بن محمد زکریای قزوینی

Title: ʻAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt

Title: عجايب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات

Title: شگفتی‌های آفریدگان و موجودات

Title: Book of the Wonders of the Age

The Persian version of the cosmographical treatise by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī

Also contains part of 'Ain al-Haiyat by Muhammad Ibn Musa Kamal Ad-din Ad-damiri

Rubric: صد هزران صورت اندر قالب حسن و جمال ريختند اما ز تو مطبوع تر کم ريختند

Incipit: مقاله پنجم از جلد دوم از کتاب عجائب در بيان احوال حيوانات البرو البحر مشتمل است بر مقدمه و بيست و هشت باب

Final rubric: فصل در بيان احوال بحر هند

Explicit: بحر هند عظيم است

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 130ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 16.5 × 12 in.

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History

Origin: 18-19th century CE

Record Sources

Record based on Handlist held in University of St Andrews Library, Special Collections, with additional enhancements by the Fihrist team

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