[IO Islamic 2725] صور الاقاليم

• Ṣuwar-alaḳâlîm .
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 708 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2725 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Ṣuwar-alaḳâlîm ( صور الاقاليم ).

A geographical compendium, styled both in the colophon and on fol.1^a صور الاقاليم, and identical with that described by Rieu i. p. 420 sq. The compiler, whose name is note mentioned, was a servant of Amîr Mubâriz-alḥaḳḳ wa-aldunyah wa-aldîn Muḥammad (see fol. 2^b, l. 6). The founder of the Mużaffarî dynasty (blinded by his son Shâh Shujâ, A.H. 760=A.D. 1359).

According to a passage in one of the British Museum copies this little book was composed A.H. 748 (A.D. 1347, 1348); comp. also Mélanges Asiatiques, vols. iv. p. 54, vi. P. 574, and vii. p. 43.

Beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين ...... قال الله تبارك تعالى سنريهم آياتنا فى الآفاق و فى انفسهم حتّى يتبيّن لهم انّه الحقّ امّا بعد در تواريخ آمده كه چون سكندر بن فيلقوس الخ .

It is divided into two bâbs:

The first, subdivided into two faṣls, viz.:

فصل اوّل در ذكر كرۀ زمين و مقدار و مساحت آن و معرفت طول و عرض بلدان و خواصّ مواضع (the terrestrial globe, its dimensions, etc.), on fol.3^b.

فصل دوم در ذكر آفاق جنوبى و خطّ استوا و ما يتعلّق و ينسب اليه ( the southern hemisphere, the equator, etc.), on fol. 12^b.

The second is subdivided into seven. faṣls, each dealing with one of the seven climates, on ff. 22^b, 41^a, 51^a, 84^a, 107^a, 113^a, and 117^a.

Dated the 12th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1220 (A.D. 1805, May 12).

Bibliotheca. Leydeniana.

No. 2725, ff. 1-130, ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; Arabic quotations in Naskhî; size, 8^3/4. by 6^1/8 in.