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Walters Ms. W.652, Marvels of the world

Walters Ms. W.652, Marvels of the world

Gharāʾib al-dunyā

غرائب الدنيا

Fakhr al-Dīn Ḥamzah ibn ʿAlī Āẕarī (author)

فخر الدين حمزة بن علي آذرى (author)

This is an abridged metrical paraphrase of the second maqālah of ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt (The wonders of creation) by Zakariyāʾ al-Qazwīnī (d. 682 AH / 1283 CE) with additions from other sources by Fakhr al-Dīn Ḥamzah ibn ʿAlī Āẕarī (d. 866 AH / 1461-2 CE). The text was copied in Herat (in present-day Afghanistan) in 1022 AH / 1613 CE in the library of the governor of Khurasan Ḥusayn Khān Shāmlū-yi Bīklirbīkī (Beglerbegi). The manuscript is illustrated with fourteen paintings in an early Safavid style from the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The present binding is not original to the manuscript. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W652/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Fourteen illustrations; incipit page with illuminated headpiece (fol. 1b); illuminated chapter/section headings; framing lines in blue, gold, red, and green

fol. 1b Incipit page with illuminated headpiece Incipit; headpiece This incipit page with illuminated headpiece has a purchase note in the right margin dated 1305 AH / 1887-8 CE.

fol. 24a A prince entertained in a garden Illustration

fol. 44b A foxhunting scene Illustration

fol. 58b A man watching two copulating horses Illustration

fol. 68b A group of people in a mountainous landscape Illustration

fol. 78b A fishing scene Illustration

fol. 85a Men with long ears (?) Illustration

fol. 92a A princely couple entertained Illustration

fol. 106b Men watching a whale Illustration

fol. 114b Men watching a black demon Illustration

fol. 137b A group of people looking at the wāqwāq tree Illustration

fol. 147b A mongoose being observed by a group of people Illustration

fol. 162a Men watching herons in flight Illustration

fol. 170a A prince entertained Illustration

fol. 179a A rhinoceros stabbing an elephant Illustration

22 Rajab 1022 AH / 1613 CE

Purchase note: Acquired for Aṣghar ʿAlī by his father Ḥusayn for 310 tomans, dated 1305 AH / 1887-8 CE (fol. 1b)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

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