ديوان.

[Dīwān]

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[19th century?]
Description
72 leaves : paper ; 214 x 149 (135 x 90) mm bound to 215 x 1554 mm.

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    Summary note
    A collection of original poems distinguished by a strongly personal tone. They are to a certain extent a diary of the authorʼs adventures.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title supplied by cataloger.
    • Marginal glosses and one marginal note on folio 61. It is evident from the introduction that Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Khālawayh collected this dīwān.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 72 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 21 lines per page ; in two columns with separation between hemistitches.
    • Description: Rubricated ; blue paper ; MS in very good condition.
    • Origin: According to colophon copied by Muḥammad al-Marṣafī (fol. 72a).
    • Incipit: وعلنه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي وعليه اعتمادي. قال ابو عبد الله الحسين بن محمد بن احمد بن خالوية ...
    • Colophon: تم على يد کاتبه محمد المرصفي وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد الامي وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تم
    Binding note
    Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.
    Provenance
    Ownership signature of al-Shaykh Ḥasanayn (fol. 72a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 31.
    • Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7580/1.
    • Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, 1298⁵.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    1340425825
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