[IO Islamic 3138] تحفة العجائب

• Tuḥfat-al’ajâ’ib.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 716 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 3138 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Tuḥfat-al’ajâ’ib ( تحفة العجائب ).

An older but greatly abridged Persian translation or rather adaptation of the same second volume of Ḳazwînî’s cosmography , the آثار البلاد, called here سبعة الاقاليم , and composed by ‘Alî Ṭâhirî (Ṭâ’irî in Rieu iii. p. 1059^a), A.H. 928 (A.D. 1522), see fol.2^b, ll. 9-11; fol.3^a, l. 9; and fol. 196^b, l. 1 (in Rieu, loc. cit., A.H. 948).

Beginning: حمد بيحدّ صانعى را كه عجائب و غرائب عالم آثار ارقام قدرت اوست و منتهاى بى منتها الخ.

The first Iḳlîm begins on fol. 4^a; the second, on dol. 32^b; the third, on fol. 53^a; the fourth, on fol. 94^a; the fifth, on fol. 144^b; the sixth, on fol. 172^a; the seventh, on fol. 187^a, last line. A khâtimah or epilogue of the translator is found on fol. 194^a, last line sq.

Copied in the month Ramaḍân, A.H. 1056 (A.D. 1646, October, November), at Multân.

No. 3138, ff. 196, ll. 15; very large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; splendid binding in gold and green; size, 12^1/8 in. by 7^1/4 in.