ZAKARIYYA IBN MUHAMMAD IBN MAHMUD AL-QAZWINI (AH 600-682/1203-1283 AD): AJA'IB AL-MAKHLUQAT WA GHARA'IB AL-MAUJUDAT

NORTH INDIA, DATED SAFAR AH 1197/JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1783 AD

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ZAKARIYYA IBN MUHAMMAD IBN MAHMUD AL-QAZWINI (AH 600-682/1203-1283 AD): AJA'IB AL-MAKHLUQAT WA GHARA'IB AL-MAUJUDAT
NORTH INDIA, DATED SAFAR AH 1197/JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1783 AD
The Wonders of Creation, Persian manuscript on paper, 205ff, plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 23ll. of elegant nasta'liq, important words picked out in red, set within red and black rules, numerous miniatures throughout of mythical beasts, figures, flora, fauna and several astrological diagrams, the colophon with possibly added date of 1198, in brown morocco binding, in fitted box
Text panel 8 7/8 x 5½in. (22.5 x 14cm.); folio 11 1/8 x 7 3/8 (28.2 x 18.5cm.)

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The colophon of this manuscript states that it was copied in the month of Safar AH 1197, during the reign of Maharaj Dhiraj Pratap Singh of Jaipur (1778-1803), in the 24th regnal year of Shah 'Alam and year 1839 of the Vikram Samvaat calendar, for a certain Sheikh Muhammad, Qadi of Suwai.

A further copy of this manuscript also from North India with lively illustrations was sold in these Rooms, 7 April 2011, lot 275. For an Arabic copy of this manuscript see lot 230 in this sale.

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