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Incip.: الحمد لله رب الارباب منشی السحاب العالم بکل
شی فلا یغزب عنه مثقال ذره فی السموات ولا فی الارض
ولا اصغر من ذلک ولا اکبر الا فی کتاب ... وبعد فهذا
... کتاب یتصرف الناظر فیه بین جد وهزل ورقیق وجزل
fol. lb-163a, 27 x 17.5 / 19.5 x 12.5 cm., 25
lin..- Laid glossy paper.- Clear naskhi hand.-
Illuminated title page and fol. 163a, 169a; text
in black, red, and blue ink.- Blind-stamped brown
leather binding (without flap, rebacked).
Cosmographical work, divided into four parts
(maqālah). - Copied in Shaw. 969/1562, by ‘Uth.
b. A. al-Ḥaurānī al-Suwaidī al-Dimashqī al-Shāfi’ī
al-Qādirī, for Tāj al-Dīn b. al-Shamsī M. b. al-
Ṣaltī.- Water-stained.- *Ref. GAL I, 439 : SI, 609
(ascribed to Majd al-Dīn al-Mubārak b. M. b. al-
Athīr , d.606/1210).- GAL SI, 581 (ascribed to
‘Imād al-Dīn Ism. b. A. b. al-Athīr, d.699/1299).-
Followed by (fol. 163b-201b) a collection of tales,
anecdotes, and narratives from various sources,
beginning with 1. (fol. 163b-165b) Muntakhab min
‘Uyūn al-tawārīkh of Ibn al-Jauzī, 2. (fol. 165b-
168b) Qiṣṣat Dhī’l-Qarnain, 3.(fol. 169b-174b) Ḥadīth
Iram dhāt al-’imād, 4. (fol. 174b-201b) Ḥadīth
ahwāl al-qiyāmah, and others.- On the inside of
the lower cover is a note on the Ms in the hand of
J. S. King, Major Retired Indian Staff Corps, dated
Sept. 1892.- Ex libris Edward Heron-Allen (no. 370).
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