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Title Page, The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Vol. II (Hakluyt Society Edition)

Hakluyt Society · 1959 edition (text originally 1354-06-12)

The title page of a modern scholarly edition of Ibn Battuta's travel account, published by the Hakluyt Society.

This is a modern scholarly edition of Ibn Battuta's own travel account, not his original manuscript.

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Title page of The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Vol. II, Hakluyt Society, Second Series No. CXVII, issued for 1959. Black serif text on white background; no map or illustration is visible.
Title page, The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Vol. II, Hakluyt Society, Second Series No. CXVII, 1959.

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What it is

This is the title page of Volume II of The Travels of Ibn Battuta, a scholarly translated edition issued by the Hakluyt Society as part of its Second Series, dated for 1959. The page shows only plain printed text, with no map or illustration.

Why it matters

This edition is a modern, scholarly translation and study of Ibn Battuta's original account of his journeys across much of the medieval Islamic world and beyond. It represents how later historians and editors have worked to preserve, translate and interpret his writings for new generations of readers, long after his original record was produced.

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  • Why is a title page useful evidence even though it contains no map or picture?
  • What does the publication by a scholarly society tell us about how old travel accounts are studied today?
  • How might translation and editing change the way we understand a medieval traveller's own words?

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Scanned manuscript page in Arabic calligraphy on aged cream paper. The top has a line of black script with a decorative heading, and a red-ink title block in larger calligraphy reading the opening of the work. Below are about two dozen lines of brown-ink handwritten text in dense Arabic script, with a marginal note at the bottom left.Book

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