كتاب الحماسة / تأليف ابي تمام حبيب بن اوس الطايي.

Kitāb al-Ḥamāsah / taʼlīf Abī Tamām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāyī.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
al-Qāhirah, Jumādá al-Akhir 588 [June/July 1192]
Description
127 leaves : paper ; 240 x 177 (195 x 110) mm bound to 241 x 183 mm.

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    Summary note
    A collection of poems on bravery in war.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
    • Marginal and interlinear notes. Illegible title also appears on lower edge of text block. MS is one of oldest in collection.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 127 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 17 lines per page.
    • Description: Marginal notes and headings of chapters in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: crown-star-crescent; three stars and roman-alphabet letters "FV") ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. Folios 2, 7 and 121 are later replacements.
    • Origin: According to colophon copied Jumādá al-Akhir 588 by al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḍar ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Asadī in Cairo (fol. 127b).
    • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين. قال رجل من بَلْعَنْبَر لو كنت .. مازن لم تسبح ابلي بنو اللقيطه ...
    • Colophon: آخر الحماسة والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيّه وسلم وعلى آله - وکتب الحسين بن مُضر ابن الحسين الاسدي بالقاهرة وکان الفراغ في شهر جمادى الاخرة من سنة ثمان وثمانين وخمسماية
    Binding note
    Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns.
    Provenance
    Seal impression bearing the name al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, dated [1] 179, and above it is another Arabic seal with words, "Whatever God pleases, there is no god but Allāh"; signature of ʻAbd al-Qādirī[?] dated 1184 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 9.
    • Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3281/2.
    • Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 395/6.
    • Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 567/8.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    1340421796
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