Summary View

Country

France

City

Paris

Institution

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Collection

Manuscrits Persans

Shelfmark

Supplement persan 1300

Contents

Kitāb tuḥfat al-gharāʼib (Anonymous)

Author

Anonymous

Show other names

Anonymous (authorised)

Biographical notes

There is a wrong attribution of this work to ʻĀlimshah Abd al-Raḥmān b. Ṣatchlī Amīr, d. 1579-80, عالم شاه عبد الرهمان بن صاتچلی امیر in (Ḥaǧǧī Kalīf, Muṣṭafā b ʻAbd Allāh and Gustav Flügel. Lexicon bibliographicum et encyclopaedicum. London: Richard Bentley, 1847., pp. 232 (vol II, ))

Title

Kitāb tuḥfat al-gharāʼib

کتاب تحفة الغرائب

Notes

A treatise of natural history dealing mostly with the properties of beings and things and the wonders found in different parts of the world

Divided in 35 chapters with contents in f. 2-3

Original work apparently composed in Arabic in 335 AH [0946-0947 CE] and later translated into Persian

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Editions

Anonymous, and Jalāl Matīnī. Tuḥfat al-gharāʼib. Edited by Ṭabarī, Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Muʻīn, 1371 [1992].

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 804.

Physical Description

Number of folios

142 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 15cm, height 22cm

History

Place

Edirne (Turkey)

Date of copy

15th. century