[Collection of Arabic poems]

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Description
88 leaves : paper ; 202 x 130 (165 x 90) mm. bound to 202 x 130 mm.

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    Summary note
    Specimens of poetry by various authors.
    Notes
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. vi + 88 + vi ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Description: Written on a slant ; many blank frame-ruled folios between poems throughout the volume ; MS in good condition.
    • Layout: 2-17 lines per page in two columns ; frame-ruled in red.
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title supplied by cataloger.
    • Ending: ولا ترى الود ممن يرى * انك محتاج الى فلسه
    • Incipit: لرواحة بن عبدالله الانصاري في مدح النبي. واحسن منك لم ترقط عيني
    Binding note
    Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in green material and blue embossed paper. Green embossed paper pastedowns and endpapers.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 162.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    1287952570
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