ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt . Persian

Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283, author.
قزويني، زكريا بن محمد, 1208 or 1209-1283 or 1284, author.

[between 1850 and 1864]

ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt. . Maṭba'-i Munshī Navāl Kishore ,
McGill Library Islamic Lithographs digital collection. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_lithographs/fullrecord.php?ID=11650&d=1. Web. 11 May, 2024. PDF file.

Lithograph.

Title from title page. Papers large 4to.

25 lines per page, includes numerous paintings, drawings and a table of contents (pages 1-8).

Indian nasta'alīq with elements of shikastah, catch words, marginal notes.

Translator is unknown.

Date of copy from Casey Wood's note on the verso of the cover page indicated that it is copied in 1912, which contradicts the statement of ownership being 1864.

A treatise on zoology, natural science, astrology and astronomy.

In Persian

Explicit: والله الموفق للصواب و الیه المرجع والمآب و هو حسبنا و نعم الوکیل

Incipit : العظمه لك ولكرياء والجلا لك اللهم يا قايم ...

image.lithograph.black and white 32 x 22 cm.

Persian

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

Maṭba'-i Munshī Navāl Kishore ,

Islamic Lithographed Books

Unknown

Rare Books and Special Collections - Blacker-Wood Rare Collection - By Consultation folio BWL W68

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