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Subject(s)

• Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn al-Nabīh, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, -1222 or 1223. Dīwān. Selections. [Browse]
• Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?. Burdah. [Browse]
• Tilimsānī, ʻAfīf al-Dīn Sulaymān ibn ʻAlī, -1291. Dīwān. [Browse]

Notes

• Fols. 185; 22.1 x 15.6 cm.; written surface 14-16.5 x 6.3-11 cm.; 23 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in Fārisi and naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.
• A collection containing:
• 1. A fragment of Dīwān (collection of original poems) of Kamāl al-Dīn Abū al-ḥasan ʻAlī ibn al-Nabīh al-Miṣrī, A.H. 619 [A.D. 1222]. On the three following folios are five short poems by five different authors.
• 2. An ode in praise of the Prophet by al-Shihāb al-Khafājī modelled after al-Burdah of Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmá.
• 3. al-Burdah of al-Būṣīrī (, A.D. 1294).
• 4. The dīwān of ʻAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī, A.H. 690 [A.D. 1291]. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 297.
• 5. A collection of anthology by various authors.
• MS in good condition; Arabic binding with flap. Probably from the XIXth century.
• Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

OCLC

1340421914

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