The travels of ibn Jubayr / edited from a MS. in the University Library of Leyden by William Wright.

  • Ibn Jubayr, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1145-1217.
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1907
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Credit: The travels of ibn Jubayr / edited from a MS. in the University Library of Leyden by William Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    only one extant in Europe. The text is very corrupt, and I have not been able to make much of it, but preferred giving it complete to suppressing any portion. 2. Al-Maqrizi has also a short article on Ibn Jubair ifi his Muqaffa; the Leyden MS. being autograph, I have taken care to give the text precisely as T found it. It will be observed that al-Maqqarl has transferred the whole of this article to his own pages with a very few verbal alterations. Al-Maqrizi has made use of the Travels of Ibn Jubair in his al-Khitat wal-AUiar, especially in the articles (compare Burck- hardt’s Trav. in Nubia, 2ud edit., p. 473 — 5) and in which latter he mentions him by name; and in the Sululc, as may be seen by comparing Burckhardt’s Trav. in Nubia, p. 497—8, with p. 6a of this volume. Another quotation is to be found in a fragment contained in the Leyden MS. 372, vol. III., and published by Hamaker in the Specim. Catalog, p. 209—11. 3. Al-Fasi offers us in the <aLJ^L3>L» a quo¬ tation from Ibn Jubair relative to the taxes levied on the pilgrims in cAidhab (see p. seq.); the passage was copied for me from a Parisian MS. by M. Defremery l). 4. Ibn Jubair’s description of the great mosque of Damascus is given in an abridged form in the Histories of that city con¬ tained in the Parisian MS. 823, but, as I mentioned before, the authors have had recourse, not to the original work, but to the extracts given by al-Sharlshi in his commentary to al-Harlri. M. Defremery was so kind as to furnish me here too with the necessary collations. In some connection with these works stands the Leyden MS. 1516, which contains a 1) On the margin of the Leyden MS. of al-FdkihVs Hist, of Makkah, fol. 473 rect., is a note containing, amongst other things, a very brief extract from Ibn Jubair relative to the masjid al-batcah (p. tov, 18).The MS. was written at Makkah in the year 877, but the writer found the note in an older exemplar cr?-