هذا مجموع في علم العروض فيه من الشروح والرسايل.

Hādhā majmūʻ fī ʻilm al-ʻarūḍ fīhi min al-shurūḥ wa-al-rasāyil.

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[between 1691 and 1781]
Description
54 leaves : paper ; 184 x 136 (150 x 85-105) mm. bound to 182 x 145 mm.

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Summary note
A commentary on the metrical treatise of prosody, known as al-Qaṣīdah al-Khazrajīyah, or al-Rāmizah by Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn al-Khazrajī. With diagrams. Followed by a work on prosody by al-Tabrīzī.
Notes
  • Ms. composite codex.
  • Title from text (fol. 1b).
  • Marginal notes. Inscriptions on lower pastedown. Of the nine titles listed in the table of contents, only the first two are present. The remainder of the titles are crossed out.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. 54 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 17 lines per page.
  • Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (hand; three crescents; anchor) ; MS in fair condition. Folios 11-30 and part of 31 by different hand. Edges trimmed except in a few cases where, in order to preserve marginal notes, they were folded.
  • Origin: [Fatḥ Rabb] According to colophon copied Monday 23 Shaʻbān 1102[?] by Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Yusr al-Aḥmadī al-Qabbānī (fol. 44a).
  • Incipit: [فتح] بسم الله ... قال سيدنا ومولانا شيخ مشايخ الاسلام -- [البهور] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ الامام ابو زكريا يحيى ابن على الخطيب التبريزي ... اقول ان القوافى تسع
  • Colophon: [فتح] تم الشرح المبارك بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه في يوم الاثنين المبارك ثالث عشرين شهر شعبان سنة 100102 [1102] کتبه العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى ابو الحسن ابن الشيخ ابو [ابي] اليسر الاحمدي القباني غفر الله له ولمن قرأ في هذه الکتاب ودعا له
Binding note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Mended. Upper cover has marbled paper and yellow paper pastedown. Lower cover of dark brown leather covered with paper.
Contents
  • 1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents]
  • 2. fol. 1b-44a: Fatḥ Rabb al-barīyah bi-sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah al-Khazrajīyah. Text in red and commentary in black.
  • 3. fol. 44b: [prayer instructions]
  • 4. fol. 45a-54a: [al-Buḥūr wa-al-qawāfī] / Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyá ibn ʻAlī al-Khaṭīb al-Tabrīzī. On prosody, part of his work al-Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī.
  • 5. fol. 54b: [reading certificate]
Provenance
  • Reading certificate for ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Barr Alwānī from his teacher Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Bujīr[?] dated 1 Jumādá I 1195.
  • Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 504.
  • Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 203, 536.
  • Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 195.
  • Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7122/3.
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Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
  • Majmūʻ fī ʻilm al-ʻarūḍ fīhi min al-shurūḥ wa-al-rasāyil
  • مجموع في علم العروض فيه من الشروح والرسايل
OCLC
1314128052
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