Hādhā kitāb ʻAjāʼib al-dunyā wa-mā fīhā
By: lil-shaykh al-barakah al-ʻālim al-muʼallif al-Qazwīnī ...
Contributors: Ibn Muḥammad, ʻAlī, fl. 1797, scribe
Published: 1797
Language: ara
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Arab Geography; Cosmography
Other titles: Partie de Merveìlle du monde, Adjaib-i makhlukhat; ʻAjāʼib al-dunyā wa-mā fīhā
Work titles: ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt .
Description: The text is a section of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī.
Notes: Ms.

Title from fol. 1b.

Written by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad on 3 Jumādá al-thānī, 1212 (November 23, 1797), probably in North Africa.

[North Africa?]

Paper:  yellowed cream, with tre lune watermarks, in moderate condition, with brown stains and damage from humidity on some leaves.  No title page; text framed by double red line.  Text is in black and red, with rubricated chapter headings.  A few marginal notes; catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM-41.

Maghribī script; 21 lines in written area, 15 x 10 cm.

On verso of rear flyleaf in blue pencil: Une partie de Merveìlle du monde, Adjaib-i makhlukhat

Fol. 1b-62a.

Binding is old cardboard covered in blind tooled leather.

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī maktabat al-Kūngris, 33.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic.