ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt

Title Variants

Uniform: ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt

By

Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

Lucknow, Maṭba'-i Munshī Navāl Kishore, [between 1850 and 1864]

Notes

Lithograph.

Title from title page. Papers large 4to.

25 lines per page, includes numerous paintings, drawings and a table of contents (pages 1-8).

Indian nasta'alīq with elements of shikastah, catch words, marginal notes.

Translator is unknown.

Date of copy from Casey Wood's note on the verso of the cover page indicated that it is copied in 1912, which contradicts the statement of ownership being 1864.

A treatise on zoology, natural science, astrology and astronomy.

In Persian

Subjects

Cosmography , Early works , Early works to 1800 , Geography, Arab , Pre-Linnean works , Zoology

Call Number

G93 .Q3219 1850

Language

Persian