Details

Subject(s)

• Geography, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Cosmography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Zoology—Pre-Linnean works [Browse]
• Botany—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Science, Medieval—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Zodiac—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Monsters—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Animals—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Plants—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 426L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Encyclopedias [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• illuminations (paintings) [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

Illustrated copy of a Persian version of Qazwīnī's Book of marvels (version (c) in Storey's description, Persian Literature (1927-), vol. II, 1, p. 125).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• On front cover: Label reading "ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūq[āt]" in Arabic script; and label reading "No. 1 MR" in Western script.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 186 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 24-25 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and blue.
• Description: Rubricated ; occasional catchwords ; original leaves inserted into new frames of later paper ; watermarks (original paper: unidentified mark) ; MS in good to fair condition, some staining and smudging, numerous paper repairs with some loss of text.
• Decoration: 408 small miniatures in blue, red, black, brown, yellow and white. Some are damaged.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 24 Muḥarram 994 (fol. 186b). This date is spurious as the paper is of much later date, likely 18th century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله مبدع العقول والارواح ومنشئ النفوس جايل الافا وما فىها من الثوابت والسيارات ...
• Colophon: تمت الكتاب عجائب المخلوقات بعون الله الملك الوهاب بتاريخ پنجشنبه 24 محرم سنه 994 نه صد نود و چهار هجرى

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging. Yellow paper pastedown.

Language note

Persian;

Script

Nastaʻlīq

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Martinovich, M. N. Turkish and Persian manuscripts, 426

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt
• كتاب عجائب المخلوقات

OCLC

773937978

Original language

• عجائب المخلوقات.
• هذا کتاب عجائب المخلوقات / من تاليفات زکريا بن محمد القزوينى.
• كتاب عجائب المخلوقات
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله مبدع العقول والارواح ومنشئ النفوس جايل الافا وما فىها من الثوابت والسيارات ...
• Colophon: تمت الكتاب عجائب المخلوقات بعون الله الملك الوهاب بتاريخ پنجشنبه 24 محرم سنه 994 نه صد نود و چهار هجرى

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