Uqbar (entry in The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia)

An entry on Uqbar is found within The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia in Volume XLVI (pp. 918-921) of the version owned by Bioy Casares. Not counting a full transcription of an unnamed heresiarch's epigram, the four pages of this entry are further compressed by Borges into a paragraph of just 400 words.

The Heresiarch's Epigram
This is the epigram that was paraphrased by Casares at their dinner. Borges quite cruelly notes that the quote was perhaps the only extraordinary passage in the whole entry.

Places mentioned in the Uqbar entry
There are 14 "place names" in the Uqbar entry, but Borges mentions only seven of them.
 * Of these, three names are recognized by Borges. These names had earlier led Casares to believe that Uqbar was a region of Iraq or Asia Minor.
 * Khorasan
 * Armenia
 * Erzurum
 * Another two places are said to be located within the geographical boundaries of Uqbar.
 * The delta of Axa, containing the islands of obelisks and stone mirrors
 * The lowlands of Tsai Khaldun
 * Lastly, two imaginary places are called out and - imaginary though they may be - since they are names, they ought to be counted in the 14.
 * Tlön
 * Mlejnas

People mentioned in the Uqbar entry
Borges notes only the following:
 * An unnamed heresiarch, the hater of mirrors and copulation.
 * Orthodox believers who find shelter in the delta-islands of obelisks and stone mirrors.
 * Smerdis the Magi, whose name is the only one Borges recognizes as a historical character.
 * Silas Haslam, writer of The History of the Land called Uqbar (1874)
 * Johann Valentin Andreä, writer of Lesbare und lesenswerthe Bemerkungen über das Land Ukkbar in Klein-Asien (1641)