A work containing the wonders of the world and creation and tales of the prophets. The prophets mentioned are Adam, Idrīs, Noah and his three sons, Hūd, Ṣāliḥ, Abraham, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Elijah, David, Solomon, Jeremiah, Yūnus (Jonah), Zachariah, Yaḥyá (John), ʻImrān and ʻĪsá (Jesus).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 200 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon; roman-alphabet letters "AG" and "EAN"; three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
On the title page the book is described as ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt and is erroneously ascribed to al-Māwardī.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي انبت الخلق نباتاً وجعلهم احيا بعد ان كانوا امواتا وجمعهم بعد ان كانوا اشتاتا ... فهذا كتاب جمعت فيه المبتدات في جلق الدنيا والسموات والاراضين وجلق الجن والانس ...
Colophon: والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على من لا نبي بعده. تم
Binding note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and blue and brown marbled paper. Paper pastedowns painted with red wavy lines. Not sewn.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 765.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 23, III, p. 174.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 497-9.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1021/2.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1340424777
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