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هذا کتاب ديوان مختارات شعراء العرب.
Hādhā Kitāb Dīwān mukhtārāt shuʻarāʼ al-ʻArab.
1889
Selections from Arabic poetry in three divisions. The first contains 12 odes by Laqīṭ ibn Yaʻmur al-Iyādī, Qaʻnab ibn Umm-Ṣāḥib, Aʻshá Bāhilah, ḥātim ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ṭā'i, Bashāmah ibn ʻAmr, Namir bin Tawlab, al-Shanfará, Kaʻb ibn Saʻd al-Ghanawī, al-Mutalammis and Ṭarafah ibn al-ʻAbd ibn Sufyān. The second contains 25 odes of which 7 are by Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmá, 6 by Bishr ibn Abī Khāzim and 12 by ʻAbīd ibn al-Abraṣ. The third contains 22 selections from the poems of al-ḥuṭayʼah and a few anecdotes of his life.
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- Publisher
- 2 Rajab 1306 [March 4, 1889]
- People
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- Scribe
- Khūjah, Muḥammad Aḥmad
- Related Name
- ابن الشجري، هبة الله بن علي، 1058 or 1059-1147 or 1148
- خوجة، محمد احمد
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 9H.
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Selections from Arabic poetry in three divisions. The first contains 12 odes by Laqīṭ ibn Yaʻmur al-Iyādī, Qaʻnab ibn Umm-Ṣāḥib, Aʻshá Bāhilah, ḥātim ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ṭā'i, Bashāmah ibn ʻAmr, Namir bin Tawlab, al-Shanfará, Kaʻb ibn Saʻd al-Ghanawī, al-Mutalammis and Ṭarafah ibn al-ʻAbd ibn Sufyān. The second contains 25 odes of which 7 are by Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmá, 6 by Bishr ibn Abī Khāzim and 12 by ʻAbīd ibn al-Abraṣ. The third contains 22 selections from the poems of al-ḥuṭayʼah and a few anecdotes of his life.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا کتاب ديوان مختارات شعراء العرب.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Kitāb Dīwān mukhtārāt shuʻarāʼ al-ʻArab.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 9H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cz30q320x
- Publisher
- 2 Rajab 1306 [March 4, 1889]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1889
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 52 leaves : paper ; 240 x 167 (185 x 110) mm. bound to 245 x 175 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 320.
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 13.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 52 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Separation between hemistitches ; rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in excellent condition ; two kinds of paper have been used, folio 21 and following being thicker and rougher ; some modern notations in pencil.
- Layout: 17 lines per page; ruled.
- Marginal notes in ink. A short table of contents appears on title page. After colophon is a note that the present MS has been copied from in al-Kitābkhānah al-Khidīwīyah in Cairo, one prepared by al-Sharīf Abū al-Saʻādāt, 542 (1147/48).
- Ms. codex
- Origin: According to colophon copied 2 Rajab 1306 by Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khūjah (fol. 52b).
- Title from title page (fol. 1a)
- Colophon: تم الاختيار من شعر الحطيئة وبه تمام الکتاب والحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد وآله وجميع الاصحاب. وکان تمامه في 2 رجب سنة 1306 من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلوة والسلام وازکى التحية م
- Incipit.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال لقيط بن يعمر الايادي ينذر قومه
- Binding Note
- Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 116
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/857dddb9-3cf8-4c79-a8ac-8475a1293c92/manifest