Geography and Cosmography [IO Islamic 2660] خريدة العجائب

• Geography and Cosmography. خريدة العجائب
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2660 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 727 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

727.

2660. Size 11 in. by 7^1/2 in.; foll. 137. Twenty-five lines in a page.

Another copy of the preceding work.

It also has the appendix, with the exception of the last piece, the poem on chess; and it gives only the picture of the Ka’bah.

Written in a large plain hand. Dated Thursday, the last of Jumâda I., 1030. Stained by damp. Two leaves are missing after fol. 1.

‘’Hen. Geo. Keene, Jan. 1803 - the gift of Wm. Oliver.’’

[Bibl. Leydeniana.]