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

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DHB Erfurt/Gotha

Classmark

Ms. orient. A 1521

Title

al-Masālik wa-al-mamālik

Author

Iṣṭaḫrī, Ibrāhīm Ibn-Muḥammad al-

Collection

Forschungsbibliothek Gotha

Catalogue

Pertsch III, 3

Catalogue Link

Digitalisat des Katalogs

Content

Title

↳ in Ms.: f. 1a:
کتاب الأقالیم
↳ Established form: al-Masālik wa-al-mamālik
: المسالك والممالك

Link to work

is exemplar of al-Masālik wa-al-mamālik

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

Iṣṭaḫrī, Ibrāhīm Ibn-Muḥammad al-

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://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE39Book_manuscript_00000001
MyCoRe ID: DE39Book_manuscript_00000001 (XML view)
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