ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt

ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt

عجايب المخلوقات وغرايب الموجودات
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Illustrated copy of a Persian version of Qazwīnī's Book of marvels (version (a) in Storey's description, Persian Literature (1927-), vol. II, 1, p. 125). Table of contents in the preamble (fol. 3a-5b). This copy is illustrated with 180 miniatures (most of them small) and 11 diagrams. Sev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283
Format: Manuscript Book
Language:Persian
Published: [India?, 17--?]
Subjects:
Animals > Pictorial works
Constellations > Pictorial works
Cosmography > History > Islamic empire > 13th century > Sources
Geography, Arab > History > 13th century > Sources
Manuscripts, Persian > New Jersey > Princeton
Monsters in literature
Monsters > Pictorial works
Planets > Pictorial works
Plants > Pictorial works
Science, Medieval > Islamic empire
Zoology > Pre-Linnean works > Islamic empire
Encyclopedias > Islamic Empire > 13th century
Illuminated manuscripts > Islamic countries > 18th century
Manuscripts, Persian > 18th century
Miniatures (Illuminations) > Islamic countries > 18th century

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Call Number: Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 82G

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