Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kharīdat al-ʻajāyib wa-farīdat al-gharāyib.
خريدة العجايب وفريدة الغرايب

Authors

• Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, -1457
  ابن الوردي، سراج الدين ابو حفص عمر،
• Ibn Ḥamdān, Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān, 1206 or 1207-1295 or 1296
  ابن حمدان، احمد بن حمدان،

Other related names

• Osman Shah bin İskender Paşa, patron
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 395 - FOLIO
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14599200
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1139751030
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_395.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14599200

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Ottoman Turkish with two pages in Arabic

Origin

Place

Turkey?, 16--?-17--?

Summary

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).
   
• 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)
   

Extent

185 foliated leaves : 275 x 175 (185 x 105) mm, bound to 275 x 185 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

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

Layout

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

Decoration

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

Script

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

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Geography, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Natural history--Pre-Linnean works
• Manuscripts, Turkish--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Marginalia (annotations)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Early works

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 15r — Stamp
• fol. 45r — Stamp
• fol. 57r — Stamp
• fol. 80r — Stamp