Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt.
عجائب المخلوقات

Authors

• Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283
  قزويني، زكريا بن محمد،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Perkins, Oliver Henry, -1912, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 41
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515763
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124678755
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_041.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515763

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian with some quotations in Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1243 (1827)

Place

India?

Summary

Copy of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt in Persian with diagrams and many color illustrations showing constellations, animals, plants, creatures and other wonders; the Arabic in the text is overlined in red.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from colophon and added title (f. 1r).
   
• Catalog entry, number 580, pasted onto last flyleaf verso. A note in pencil "'Wonder Book' MS. Indian workmanship written in the Persian language XVIII cent. AD. Lahore, India" and the code $U1.II written onto last flyleaf recto at the back of the book.
   

Extent

292, i leaves : 263 x 160 (180 x 100) mm bound to 265 x 165 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in red ink, upper left recto by corner of the textbox; occasional separate catchword on verso, lower left, more often, the last word of the page is repeated at the top of the next page.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in repaired dark red leather over pasteboard (Type III) with frame of green and yellow rules; doublure of plain paper with painted blue frame and tall, narrow window designs.

Layout

23 long lines; border-ruled; catchwords in the bottom left of the textblock; marginal headings.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red and pink (f. 1v); numerous color illustrations, some full page, some half page and some smaller; diagrams in red and black (f. 9v, 10v-11v, 13r-14r, 15r, 16v, 204v-205v). Tables in red and black (f. 202r-202v, 213v-214v).Textblock is border-ruled in blue and double red; page-opening is frame ruled in blue. Rubrications in red, including marginal headings and overlining.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Cosmography--Early works to 1800
• Geography, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Zoology--Pre-Linnean works

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Full covers

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "Oliver Henry Perkins"
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 9v — Diagram
• fol. 10v — Diagram
• fol. 11r — Diagram
• fol. 11v — Diagram
• fol. 13r — Diagram
• fol. 13v — Diagram
• fol. 14r — Diagram
• fol. 15r — Diagram
• fol. 16v — Diagram
• fol. 18r — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 19r — Illustration: constellation
• fol. 19v — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 20r — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 20v — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 21r — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 21v — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 22r — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 22v — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 23r — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 23v — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 24r — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 24v — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 25r — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 25v — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 26r — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 26v — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 27r — Illustration: constellation
• fol. 27v — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 28r — Illustrations: constellations
• fol. 52v — Illustration
• fol. 53v — Illustration
• fol. 57r — Illustration
• fol. 57v — Full-page illustration
• fol. 58r — Full-page illustration
• fol. 59r — Illustration
• fol. 59v — Illustrations: animals
• fol. 60r — Illustration
• fol. 60v — Illustration
• fol. 61r — Illustrations
• fol. 61v — Illustrations
• fol. 62r — Illustrations: animals
• fol. 62v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 63v — Illustration
• fol. 64r — Marginal illustration
• fol. 64v — Illustrations
• fol. 65r — Illustrations: animals
• fol. 65v — Illustrations: fish
• fol. 67v — Illustrations: fish
• fol. 69r — Illustration
• fol. 69v — Illustrations
• fol. 70v — Illustrations
• fol. 71v — Illustration
• fol. 72r — Illustration
• fol. 72v — Illustrations
• fol. 73r — Illustrations
• fol. 74r — Illustration
• fol. 74v — Illustration
• fol. 75r — Illustration
• fol. 75v — Illustrations
• fol. 76r — Illustration
• fol. 77r — Illustration
• fol. 77v — Illustrations
• fol. 78v — Illustrations
• fol. 79v — Illustrations
• fol. 80v — Illustration
• fol. 81r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 81v — Illustrations: animals
• fol. 82r — Illustrations: animals
• fol. 84v — Illustration
• fol. 98r — Illustration
• fol. 126r — Illustrations: plants
• fol. 126v — Illustration: plant
• fol. 127r — Illustrations: plants
• fol. 127v — Illustrations: plants
• fol. 128r — Illustration: plant
• fol. 129r — Illustrations: plants
• fol. 130r — Illustration: plant
• fol. 130v — Illustration: plant
• fol. 131v — Illustration: plant
• fol. 132v — Illustration: plant
• fol. 133r — Illustration: plant
• fol. 133v — Illustration: plant
• fol. 134r — Illustrations: plants
• fol. 134v — Illustrations: plants
• fol. 135r — Illustrations: plants
• fol. 135v — Illustration: plant
• fol. 136r — Illustrations: plants
• fol. 136v — Illustrations: plants
• fol. 137r — Illustration: plant
• fol. 137v — Illustration: plant
• fol. 138r — Illustration: plant
• fol. 138v — Illustration: plant
• fol. 139r — Illustration: plant
• fol. 139v — Illustration: plant
• fol. 141r — Illustration: plant
• fol. 141v — Illustration: plant
• fol. 143r — Illustrations: plants
• fol. 143v — Illustration: plant
• fol. 202r — Table
• fol. 202v — Table
• fol. 204v — Diagram
• fol. 205r — Diagram
• fol. 205v — Diagram
• fol. 213v — Tables
• fol. 214r — Tables
• fol. 214v — Table
• fol. 221v — Illustration: creatures
• fol. 222r — Illustration: creatures
• fol. 222v — Illustration: creature
• fol. 223r — Illustration: scene
• fol. 223v — Illustration: scene
• fol. 224v — Illustration
• fol. 225r — Illustration: creatures
• fol. 225v — Illustration
• fol. 230r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 230v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 231v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 232r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 233r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 234r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 235v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 236r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 236v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 237r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 237v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 238v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 239r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 240r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 240v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 241r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 242r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 243r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 243v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 244r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 244v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 245v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 246r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 246v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 247v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 248r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 248v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 249r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 249v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 250v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 251r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 251v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 252v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 253v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 254v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 255v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 256r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 256v — Illustration: bird
• fol. 257r — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 257v — Illustration: bird
• fol. 258r — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 258v — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 259r — Illustration: bird
• fol. 259v — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 260r — Illustration: bird
• fol. 260v — Illustration: bird
• fol. 261v — Illustration: bird
• fol. 262r — Illustration: bird
• fol. 262v — Illustration: bird
• fol. 263r — Illustration: bird
• fol. 264r — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 264v — Illustration: bird
• fol. 265r — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 265v — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 266r — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 266v — Illustration: bird
• fol. 267r — Illustration: bird
• fol. 267v — Illustration: bird
• fol. 268r — Illustration: bird
• fol. 268v — Illustration: bird
• fol. 269r — Illustration: bird
• fol. 270r — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 270v — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 271r — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 271v — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 272r — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 272v — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 273r — Illustrations: birds
• fol. 273v — Illustration: bird
• fol. 274r — Illustration: bird
• fol. 275r — Illustration
• fol. 276v — Illustration
• fol. 277v — Illustrations
• fol. 279v — Illustration: bird
• fol. 280r — Illustrations
• fol. 280v — Illustrations
• fol. 281r — Illustration
• fol. 281v — Illustration
• fol. 282r — Illustration
• fol. 283r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 284r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 285r — Illustration: animal
• fol. 286v — Illustration: animal
• fol. 287r — Illustration
• fol. 287v — Illustrations
• fol. 288r — Illustrations
• fol. 288v — Illustrations
• fol. 289r — Illustrations
• fol. 289v — Illustrations
• fol. 290r — Illustrations
• fol. 290v — Illustrations
• fol. 291r — Illustrations
• fol. 291v — Illustrations
• fol. 292r — Illustration