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Appendix: A Preliminary Inventory of Some Known Illustrated Wonders-of-Creation Manuscripts
1280, Wasit, Iraq
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
Munich, Staatsbibliothek, MSS cod. arab. 464
Hans-Caspar Graf von Bothmer, “Die Illustrationen des ‘Münchener Qazwini’ von 1280 (cod. Monac. arab. 464): Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis ihres Stils” (Ph.D. diss., Universitàt München, 1971).
Helga Rebhan, ed., Die Wunder der Schöpfung: Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek aus dem islamischen Kulturkreis = The Wonders of Creation: Manuscripts of the Bavarian State Library from the Islamic world (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010).
 
c.1300, likely Mosul, Iraq
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
London, British Library, MSS Or. 14140
Stefano Carboni, “The London Qazwīnī: An Early Fourteenth Century Copy of the ʿAjāʾib al-Makhlūqāt,” Islamic Art 3 (1988–9): 15–31.
—. “The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Ilkhanid Painting: A Study of the London Qazwini British Library MS. Or. 14140” (Ph.D. diss., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1992).
 
c.1320, Fars, Iran
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic fragment
Gotha, Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek, MSS A. 1506
Karin Rührdanz, “Islamische Miniaturhandschriften aus Beständen der DDR: Qazwīnī-Illustrationen des 14. Jahrhunderts,” Wissenschaftliche Zeitung der Universität Halle 22, 6 (1973): 123–5.
Persis Berlekamp, “From Iraq to Fars: Tracking Cultural Transformations in the 1322 Qazwini ʿAjāʾib Manuscript,” Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts, ed. Anna Contadini (Leiden: Brill, 2007, pp. 73–91).
 
1322, Fars
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
Istanbul, Süleymaniye Library, MSS Yeni Cami 813
Persis Berlekamp, “From Iraq to Fars: Tracking Cultural Transformations in the 1322 Qazwini ʿAjāʾib Manuscript,” Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts, ed. Anna Contadini (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 73–91.
 
First half of the fourteenth century, Mamluk Syria?
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
Doha, Islamic Art Museum, MSS 647
Stefano Carboni and Anna Contadini. “An Illustrated Copy of al-Qazwin’s The Wonders of Creation,” Sotheby’s Art at Auction 1989–1990 (London, 1990): 228–33.
 
1388, probably Baghdad, Iraq
The Wonders of Creation or The World Showing Glass of Tusi
Persian
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MSS supp. pers. 332
Henri Massé, Le Livre des Merveilles du Monde (Paris: Éditions du chêne, 1944).
Francis Richard, “L’iconographie se rapportant à Eskandar dans le manuscrit djalâyeride du ʿAdjâyeb-nâmeh’ de Tûsi Salmâni de la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris,” Alexandre le Grand dans les littératures occidentales et proche-orientales, ed. Laurence Harf-Lancner, Clair Kappler, and François Suard (Paris: Université Paris X-Nanterre, 1999), pp. 77–94.
—. Splendeurs persanes: Manuscrits du XIle au XVIle siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997).
 
Late fourteenth century, western Iran
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini?
Persian
Present location unknown
Islamic Manuscripts, Catalogue 22. London: Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, 1999.
 
c.1415 Shiraz?
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian fragment (frontispiece)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Inv. 34.109
 
1421, likely Shiraz
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Museum, MSS Revan 1660
 
1420s, likely Shiraz
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst, MSS I. 6943
Karin Rührdanz, “Zwei Illustrierte Qazwīnī-Handschriften in Sammlungen der DDR,” Persica 10 (1982): 97–114, Abb. 1–9.
 
1424, likely Shiraz
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Istanbul, Süleymaniye Library, MSS Laleli 1991
 
c.1440, Iran
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Manchester, The John Rylands Library, MSS Ryl. Pers. 37
B. W. Robinson, “Appendix: The ʿAjaʾib al-Makhluqat of Qazwini,” Persian Paintings in the John Rylands Library: A Descriptive Catalogue (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980), pp. 351–2.
 
1441 (844), Iran
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
London, The British Library, MSS Add. 23564
 
c.1475, Iran
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
London, Royal Asiatic Society, MSS 178
B. W. Robinson, Persian Paintings in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1998), pp. 15–23.
—. “R. A. S. MS 178: An Unrecorded Persian Painter,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2 (1970): 203–9.
 
c.1480, Iran
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Oxford, The Bodleian Library, MSS Laud Or. 132
 
1479, Turkman
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Museum, MSS H. 410
Anna Caiozzo, “Quatre signes d’un zodiaque caché. Les porteurs du Trône divin dans les cosmographies en arabe et en persan d’époque médiévale,” Annales Islamologiques 33 (1999): 1–31.
 
1488, Herat
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MSS supp. pers. 1781
 
1492 Turkman
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MSS N.F. 155
Dorothea Duda, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Islamische Handschriften I, Persische Handschriften (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1983), pp. 76–82, figs. 102–6.
 
1494/5, Turkman
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Istanbul, MSS Topkapı Palace Museum, R. 1659
 
1503–4, Herat?
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
London, The British Library, MSS Or. 12220
Norah M. Titley, Miniatures from Persian Manuscripts: a Catalogue and Subject Index of Paintings from Persian, India, and Turkey in the British Museum (London: British Museum Publications Ltd., 1997), no. 246, pp. 110–15.
 
1514–15, Shiraz?
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
St Petersburg, Russian National Library, MSS PNS 265
 
1537, western India?
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Washington, D.C., The National Library of Medicine, MSS P1
 
1540, Shiraz?
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
New York, New York Public Library, MSS Spencer Pers. MS 49
Barbara Schmitz, Islamic Manuscripts in the New York Public Library (New York: The New York Public Library, 1992) pp. 79–93.
 
1545, Shiraz?
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Dublin, The Chester Beatty Library, MSS Pers. 212
A. J. Arberry et al, The Chester Beatty Library: A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures, 3 vols. (Dublin: Hodges and Figgis, 1959–62).
 
1552, Ottoman?
The Wonders of Creation of an as yet unidentified author Turkish
The Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg, MSS LJS 50
Crofton Black, ed., Transformation of Knowledge: Early Manuscripts from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London, Paul Holberton publishing, 2006), p. 134.
 
Mid-sixteenth century, Istanbul, dedication to Suleyman I
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Library, MSS H. 408
 
1560, Shiraz?
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Library, MSS H. 406
 
c.1560, Qazvin?
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Library, MSS H. 407
 
1568–9, Qazvin?
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Library, MSS H. 403
 
1566, Ottoman Istanbul?
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Persian
Cambridge University Library, MSS Nn 3.74
 
1567
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Persian
Cairo, Dār al-Kutub, MSS Taʾrikh fārsī 21
Naṣr Allāh Mubashshir al-Ṭirāzī, al-Fihris al-Waṣfī li-l-Makhṭüṭāt al-Fārisiyya al-Muzayyana bi-l-Ṣuwur wa-l-Maḥfūẓa bi-Dār al-Kutub (Cairo: Matbaʿat Dār al-Kutub, 1968), pp. 77–8.
 
1571, Sultanate of Bijapur, Deccan India
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
Rampur, Raza Library, MSS no. 603
Barbara Schmitz and Ziyaud-Din A. Desai, Mughal and Persian Paintings and Illustrated Manuscripts in the Raza Library, Rampur (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2006).
 
1572, Sultanate of Bijapur, Deccan India
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
London, British Library India Office, MSS Loth 723
Stefano Carboni, “Constellations, Giants and Angels from al-Qazwini Manuscripts,” in James Allan, ed., Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 83–97.
 
1572, Sultanate of Bijapur, Deccan India
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
London, British Library India Office, MSS Loth 724
Stefano Carboni, “Constellations, Giants and Angels from al-Qazwini Manuscripts,” in James Allan, ed., Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 83–97.
 
1570s? Deccan, India?
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
London, British Library, MSS Or. 4701
 
Sixteenth century, Iran
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Arabic
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MSS Or. Smith-Lesouëf 221
Collinet, Annabelle, “al-Qazwînî et le genre littéraire des Merveilles,” in Laurence Posselle, ed., L’étrange et le merveilleux en terres d’Islam (Paris: Ed. de la Reunion des musées nationaux, 2001), pp. 34–65.
 
Late sixteenth century, Istanbul?
The Wonders of Creation of Tusi
Persian
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Museum, MSS H. 401
Karin Rührdanz, “Ein illustrierte iatromagischer Text als Bestandteil von ʿAǧāʾib al-Maẖlūqāt-Handschriften: vom Staunen über die Wunder der Schõpfung zur magischen Praxis,” Journal of Turkish Studies 26, 2 (2002): 183–93
 
1577, Istanbul?
The Wonders of Creation of Tusi.
Persian
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Museum, MSS H. 404
Karin Rührdanz, “Ein illustrierte iatromagischer Text als Bestandteil von ʿAǧāʾib al-Maẖlūqāt-Handschriften: vom Staunen über die Wunder der Schöpfung zur magischen Praxis,” Journal of Turkish Studies 26, 2 (2002): 183–93
 
1576–7, Qazvin?
The Choicest of Oddities
Persian
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MSS Mixt. 324
Dorothea Duda, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Islamische Handschriften I, Persische Handschriften (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1983), pp. 160–70, figs. 211–12.
 
1580, Iraq
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
St Petersburg, The Russian Academy of Science, MSS D-370
A. Alikberov and E. Rezvan, “ʿAḏjāʾib al-Maḵẖlūqāt by Zakariyāʾ al-Qazwini (d. 682/1283): 16th-Century Illuminated Manuscript from the St. Petersburg Academic Collection,” Manuscripta Orientalia 1 (July 1995): 56–67, front cover, pl. 1–2.
B. Morr and E. Rezvan, “Al-Qazwīnī’s ʿAjāʾib al-Makhlūqāt wa-Gharā’ib al-Mawjūdāt: Manuscript D 370,” Manuscripta Orientalia 8, 4 (Dec. 2002): 38–68.
 
c.1580
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Dublin, The Chester Beatty Library, MSS Pers. 241
A. Alikberov and E. Rezvan, “ʿAḏjā’ib al-Maḵẖalūqāt by Zakariyāʾ al-Qazwini (d. 682/1283): 16th-Century Illuminated Manuscript from the St. Petersburg Academic Collection,” Manuscripta Orientalia 1 (July 1995): 56–67, front cover, pi. 1–2.
Karin Rührdanz, “Illustrated Persian Aja’ib al-Maḵẖluqat manuscripts and their Function in Early Modern Times,” pp. 33–48 in Andrew J. Newman, ed., Society and Culture in the early modern Middle East: studies on Iran in the Safavid period (Leiden: Brill, 2003).
 
Late sixteenth century, Shiraz?
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Persian
Istanbul, Süleymaniye Library, MSS Reşit Efendi 670
 
Sixteenth century, Ottoman Empire
The Book of Wonders and Oddities
Turkish, Süruri’s synoptic translation of Qazwini
London, The British Library, MSS Add. 7894
Metin And, Minyatürlerle Osmanli-İslâm Mitologyasi (Istanbul: Akbank, 1998).
 
The Wonders of Creation
Persian translation of Qazwini
London, The British Library, MSS Or. 13935
Metin And, Minyatürlerle Osmanli-İslâm Mitologyasi (Istanbul: Akbank, 1998).
 
The Book of Wonders and Oddities
Turkish, Süruri’s synoptic translation of Qazwini
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Museum, MSS A. 3632
Metin And, Minyatürlerle Osmanli-İslâm Mitologyasi (Istanbul: Akbank, 1998).
 
1563, Egypt
The Order of the World and its Wonders of Shaykh
Ahmad al-Miṣrī
Arabic
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Museum, MSS Revan 1638
Richard Ettinghausen, Arab Painting (Geneva: Skira, 1962).
 
Seventeenth century?, India
The Wonders of Creation
St Petersburg, The Russian Academy of Science, MSS C 597
Francesca Leoni, “The Revenge of Ahriman: Images of divs in the ‘Shahnama,’ ca. 1300–1600” (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 2008).
 
Seventeenth century?, India
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MSS Or. suppl. persan 330
Collinet, Annabelle, “al-Qazwînî et le genre littéraire des Merveilles,” in Laurence Posselle, ed., L’étrange et le merveilleux en terres d’Islam (Paris: Ed. de la Reunion des musées nationaux, 2001), pp. 34–65.
 
1619
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Manchester, John Rylands Library, Pers MSS 2
B. W. Robinson, Persian Paintings in the John Rylands Library: A Descriptive Catalogue (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980), “Appendix: The ʿAjaʾib al-Makhluqat of Qazwini,” pp. 351–2.
 
c.1620, Ottoman Syria?
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
Gotha, MSS A. 1507
Karin Rührdanz, “Islamische Miniaturhandschriften aus Beständen der DDR: Qazwīnī-Illustrationen des 17. Jahrhunderts,” Wissenschaftliche Zeitung der Universität Halle 2.6, 5 (1977): 119–26.
 
First half of the seventeenth century?, Ottoman?
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
Krakow, National Museum MSS I 54030, Dz. P. 134/38
Maria Kowalska, “Eine unbekannte Handschrift al Kazwīnīs Kitāb ʿAǧāʾib al-Maḥlūḳāt,” Folia Orientalia (1959), 326–32.
 
1632
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Manchester, John Rylands Library, MSS Pers Ms 3
B. W. Robinson, Persian Paintings in the John Rylands Library: A Descriptive Catalogue (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980), cat. no. 1439, and “Appendix: The ʿAjaʾib al-Makhluqat of Qazwini,” pp. 351–2.
 
Mid-seventeenth century, Mughal India
The Collection of Oddities of Muhammad al-Mufti
Persian
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MSS 9
Collinet, Annabelle, “al-Qazwînî et le genre littéraire des Merveilles,” in Laurence Posselle, ed., L’étrange et le merveilleux en terres d’Islam (Paris: Ed. de la Reunion des musées nationaux, 2001), pp. 34–65.
 
1685, Istanbul, for Sultan Mehmet IV by Mehmet Rudusizâbe
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Turkish
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MSS Or. Suppl. Turc 1063
Collinet, Annabelle, “al-Qazwînî et le genre littéraire des Merveilles,” in Laurence Posselle, ed., L’étrange et le merveilleux en terres d’Islam (Paris: Ed. de la Reunion des musées nationaux, 2001), pp. 34–65.
 
1699, Baghdad
The Mirror of the Wonders of Creation (Miʾrāt-i ʿAjāʾib al-Makhlūqāt)
Turkish translation of Qazwini
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Museum, MSS H. 400
Fehmi E. Karatay: Topkapı Palace Müzesi Kütüphanesi
Türkçe Yazmalar Kataloğu, I (Istanbul 1961), no. 1332.
 
Paintings done in India, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century (style); text block, Iran, 1460
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Persian
Princeton Rare Books and Special Collections, MSS Garrett 82G
Robert Garrett et al., A Descriptive Catalog of the Garrett Collection of Persian, Turkish, and Indic Manuscripts Including Some Miniatures, in the Princeton University Library (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1939).
This manuscript portion may originally have belonged with MSS P. 29 at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD. See discussion of fig. 87 in the Epilogue.
 
Late seventeenth century?, India
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Persian
New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University, Persian MSS + 28
 
Iran, 1704
The Wonders of Creation of Tusi
Persian
Present location unknown.
Islamic Manuscripts, Catalogue 22. London: Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, 1999. Cat. no. 46, pp. 134–5
 
Eighteenth century?, India
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Persian
Princeton Rare Books and Special Collections, MSS Garrett 68G
Robert Garrett et al., Descriptive Catalog of the Garrett Collection of Persian, Turkish, and Indic Manuscripts Including Some Miniatures, in the Princeton University Library (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1939).
 
Eighteenth century?, Arab provinces of Ottoman Empire?
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
Munich, Staatsbibliothek, MSS cod. arab. 463
Helga Rebhan, ed., Die Wunder der Schöpfung: Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek aus dem islamischen Kulturkreis = The Wonders of Creation: Manuscripts of the Bavarian State Library from the Islamic World (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010).
 
Nineteenth century, Qajar Iran
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
Cairo, Dār al-Kutub, MSS Taʾrīkh fārsī ṭalʿat 26,
Naṣr Allāh Mubashshir al-Ṭirāzī, al-Fihris al-Waṣfī li-l-Makhṭūṭāt al-Fārisiyya al-Muzayyana bi-l-Ṣuwur wa-l-Maḥfūẓa bi-Dār al-Kutub (Cairo: Matbaʿat Dār al-Kutub, 1968).
 
1806, Iran or India
The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini
Persian
New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University, Persian MSS + 65
 
1822, Iran
A paraphrase of the second part of The Wonders of Creation of Qazwini rendered in verse by Jalal al-Din
Hamza al-Duri, and owned by Zayn al-ʿAbidin b. Dhuʾl Qadr.
Persian
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MSS Or. suppl. pers. 1148
Collinet, Annabelle, “al-Qazwînî et le genre littéraire des Merveilles,” in Laurence Posselle, ed., L’étrange et le merveilleux en terres d’Islam (Paris: Ed. de la Reunion des musées nationaux, 2001), pp. 34–65.
 
HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL PROVENANCE:
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
The “Sarre Qazwini”
Arabic
Washington, D.C., Freer Gallery of Art and New York Public Library, MSS Spencer Collection Pers. MS 45
Julie Badiee. “The Sarre Qazwini: An Early Aq Qoyunlu Manuscript?” Ars Orientalis 14 (1984): 97–113.
—. “An Islamic Cosmography: The Illustrations of the Sarre Qazwini” (Ph.D. diss., The University of Michigan, 1978).
Stefano Carboni, “Constellations, Giants and Angels from al-Qazwīnī Manuscripts,” in James Allan, ed., Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 83–97.
Barbara Schmitz, Islamic Manuscripts in the New York Public Library (New York: The New York Public Library, 199a), pp. 7–13.
 
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
St Petersburg, Institute of Oriental Studies, MSS E-7
In addition to the bibliography for the Sarre Qazwini, see also: Stefano Carboni, “The Arabic Manuscripts,” in Yuri A. Petrosyan, ed., Pages of Perfection: Islamic Paintings and Calligraphy from the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Milan: Electa, 1995), pp. 77–92.
 
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence of Qazwini
Arabic
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MSS P. 128
In addition to the bibliography for the Sarre Qazwini, see also: Stefano Carboni, “The Arabic Manuscripts,” in Yuri A. Petrosyan, ed., Pages of Perfection: Islamic Paintings and Calligraphy from the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Milan: Electa, 1995), pp. 77–92.
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