Kitāb ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʾib al-mawjūdāt — Cod arab 464 xs

This compendium contains digital facsimiles of four landmark manuscript copies of Zakariyyā al-Qazwīnī's 13th-century cosmographical treatise, Kitāb ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʾib al-mawjūdāt (The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence). Critical examination of their transmission histories reveals substantial, unrecorded, centuries-long gaps in the chain of custody for every witness between their point of origin and modern institutional repositories. In heritage studies, such structural voids mirror the systemic pathways through which unprovenanced cultural property is historically absorbed and institutionalized globally. Cultural property laundering typically operates by exploiting temporal distance, colonial asymmetrical networks, and market intermediaries to transform undocumented regional manuscript circulation into formalized Western institutional assets, establishing a

উৎস: Internet Archive — https://archive.org/details/kitab-ajaib-al-makhluqat-manuscript-collection