• خريدة العجائب وفريدة الغرائب / لزين الدين عمر بن المظفر بن الوردي المتوفى 749
• Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-gharāʼib / li-Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Wardī al-mutawaffá 749

Collections:

• Robert Garrett
• Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9955142333506421

Language:

• Arabic

Creator:

• Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, -1349

Call number:

• Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 267B
• Electronic Resource

Extent:

• i, 187, i leaves : paper, ill. ; 208 x 135 (152 x 75) mm. bound to 20 x 140 mm.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Description:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a, later hand).
• Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red (gold on fol.1b-2a). The text is vocalized. Some yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. The text is framed within a border in gold outlined in black. European paper with watermark. Occasional marginal annotation. Title on tail of text block (hardly legible).
• Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Decoration: Illuminated scalloped mandorla, executed in gold, blue, and colors on fol 1a. Illuminated headpiece with basmalah in gold on fol. 1b.
• Illustration 1: Mappa mundi on fol. 3b-4a, circular, executed in gold, blue, green, red, and gold.
• Illustration 2 : Map of the Kaʻbah surrounded by the miḥrāb for different regions on fol. 43b.
• Origin: The illuminations suggest the 11th/17th cent.
• Incipit: بسم ... قل لا يعلم من في السموات والارض الغيب الا الله الحمد لله غافر الذنب قابل التوب شديد العقاب عالم الغيب ... [2أ] ... وبعد فان خالق الخلق والبرية ومن له الارادة والمشيئة قد ميز الملوك
• Explicit: وهذه خاتمة الارجوزه وما حوت من حكم عزيزه والحمد لله على تمامها حمدا يصوع المسك فى ختامها

Publisher:

• [16--?]

Subject:

• Cosmography
• Geography, Arab
• Qiblah—Charts, diagrams, etc—Specimens
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
• Manuscript maps—Mediterranean Region—17th century
• Maps—Mediterranean Region—17th century
• World maps—17th century
• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—17th century
• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—17th century

Title sort:

• Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-gharāʼib / li-Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Wardī al-mutawaffá 749

Alternative:

• ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt
• عجائب المخلوقات

Spatial:

• New Jersey

Binding note:

• Brown leather over paper pasteboards. Central gold stamped scalloped mandorla, with floral motif left plain. The outer border consists of blind and gold tooled fillets and guilloche. Rebacked.

Provenance:

• Ownership statement in the name of Ismāʻīl, qāḍī in Baghdād on fol. 1a, with seal. Another erased ownership statement with seal on the same fol. Erased seal on fol. 29b. Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.

Source acquisition:

• Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References:

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 770
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 131/8 ; SII
• Sellheim, R. Materialen zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte. Teil I (1976), no. 49

Author:

• Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, -1349

Created:

• 1600-01-01T00:00:00Z/1699-12-31T23:59:59Z

Date:

• 1600-1699

Abstract:

• Fifteenth century Arabic cosmography, ascribed to Ibn al-Wardi (fl. ca. 822/1419). On the disputed authorship, see Sellheim, R. Materialen zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte, t. I, no. 49.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/7d278t07w

Location:

• HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 267B
• HSVM Electronic Resource
• ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 267B
• ELF1 Electronic Resource

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Type:

• Manuscript maps
• Maps
• World maps
• Headpieces (layout features)
• Illuminated manuscripts
• Charts, diagrams, etc

Range label:

• Title Page
• Preamble (i)
• Mappa mundi
• Preamble (ii)
• Faṣl [1(i)]
• Ṣūrat al-Kaʻbah
• Faṣl [1(ii)]
• [Faṣl 2]
• Faṣl [3]
• Faṣl [4]
• Faṣl [5]
• Faṣl [6]
• Faṣl [7]
• Faṣl [8]
• Faṣl [9-10]
• Faṣl [11]
• Faṣl [12]
• Faṣl [13]
• Nubdhah / Varia
• Qaṣīdah
• Faṣl [14]

Available online:

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