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[DE-FBG] Ms. orient. A 1521
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha

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Classmark
Ms. orient. A 1521
Title
Author
Collection
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Catalogue
Pertsch III, 3
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Content

Title

↳ in Ms.
f. 1a:
کتاب الأقالیم
↳ Established form
al-Masālik wa-al-mamālik
المسالك والممالك
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Subject matter
natural sciences → geography/cosmography
Region
Islamic world / MENA region
Content
see the Persian translation Ms. orient. P 36; Sprenger 1 at the Staatsbibliothek Berlin
Language
Arabic
Script
Arabic
Beginning
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نبتدي بعون الله ذكر حدود الممالك وصفة اقاليم الارض
Author
↳ Name
Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-
  • الاصتخري، ابراهيم بن محمد
Other copies of the works
Editions/Literature
Johann Heinrich Möller: Liber Climatum Auctore Scheicho Abu-Ishako El-Faresi Vulgo El-Issthachri, Gotha 1839.

M.J. de Goeje: "Die Istakhrī-Balkhī Frage", in ZDMG, Bd. 25 (1871), S. 42-58.

Johannes H. Kramers: “La question Balḵī-Iṣṭaḵrī-Ibn Hawḳal et l’Atlas de l’Islam,” Acta Orientalia 10, 1932, S. 9-30.

Johannes H. Kramers: “L’influence de la tradition iranienne dans la géographie arabe,” Analecta Orientalia I, 1954, S. 147-56.

I. Y. Krachkovskiĭ: Arabskaya geograficheskaya literatura, Moscow/Leningrad 1957.

Gerald R. Tibbets: "The Balkhī School of Geographers", in: J.B. Harley/David Woodward (Hrsg.), The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies, Chicago 1992, S. 108-136.

http://parsi.wiki/dehkhodaworddetail-bfbec81bc5474d13a5201947dbb08675-fa.html

Description of the object

Record type
manuscript
Format
codex
Number of volumes
1
Boxing
25,5 x 19,6 x 3 cm
Binding
New European binding with flap

Writing material

↳ Material
paper
↳ Colour
yellowish-brown
↳ State of preservation
restored; rounded corners
Number of folios
75 f.
Dimensions
24,6 x 18,8 cm
Text area
20,7 x 14,7 cm
Number of lines
22
Number of columns
1
Catchwords
none

Script

↳ Style
Arabic script → Naskh
↳ Ink
brownish-black
red
green
grey
yellow
Illustrations
20 maps

History of the object

Date

↳ copy
1172/3
Acquisition
1807; Kairo
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Access and usage

Collection
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Classmark
Ms. orient. A 1521
↳ alternate
old catalogue number : Möll. 312
other identification : Stz. Kah. 684
Editor
Beez/Abbas
status of edit
First input complete
Static URL
https://gothams.dl.uni-leipzig.de/receive/DE39Book_manuscript_00000001
MyCoRe ID
DE39Book_manuscript_00000001 (XML view)
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License
CC BY-NC 4.0
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