Kharīdat al-ʻajāyib wa-farīdat al-gharāyib
Contributors: Osman Shah bin İskender Paşa, patron; Ibn Ḥamdān, Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān, 1206 or 1207-1295 or 1296; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1600
Place of publication: Turkey?]
Language: ota
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Arab Geography; Early works to 1800; Natural history; Pre-Linnean works; Turkish Manuscripts
Work titles: Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-gharāʼib
Description: Incomplete copy of an Ottoman Turkish translation of a work on geographical places, plants and animals; ends abruptly at the beginning of "faṣl fī al-buqūl al-ṣighār". Text commissioned by Osman Shah bin İskender Paşa. The first two leaves are in Arabic. Worm damage in the gutter and lower, outer corner, text mostly unaffected. The copy is in several different hands.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from Turkish introduction (f. 1v).

Layout: 19 long lines with poetry in two columns; some marginalia.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Some marginalia in nastaʻlīq; pointed.

Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in gold (1v-2r); rubrications in red; red dots punctuate text on some leaves.

Origin: The item is undated, perhaps copied in the 17th or 18th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 395 - FOLIO.

According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second edition online, this is a plagiarism of Ibn Ḥamdān's Jāmiʻ al-funūn wa-salwat al-maḥzūn; see under Ibn al-Wardī (Nad̲j̲m al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ḥamdān b. S̲h̲abīb al-Ḥarrānī al-Ḥanbalī).

Stamp of a former owner repeatedly stamped (f. [0]r-1r, 15r, 45r, 57r, 80r).

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Ottoman Turkish with two pages in Arabic.

Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (bookplate inside front cover).

Bound in light brown leather over pasteboard; stamped design of two inset rectangles with diagonal lines between the corners, connecting them; plain paper doublure.

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