[Collection of Arabic prose and poetry].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[18--?]
Description
174 leaves : paper ; 187 x 115 mm. bound to 193 x 122 mm.

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    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Physical description: 15-17 lines per page; written in ruqʻah script in dark blue ink on beige paper. Poetry in two columns. Paginated in Arabic numerals in pencil. Text likely calligraphed by Ilyās Faraj Bāsīl. Index for text 1 on fol. 101b; index for remainder of texts on fol. 174b.
    Binding note
    Contemporary quarter leather with marbled boards.
    Language note
    Arabic.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1a-101b: Raghbat al-sāʾil fī inshāʾ al-rasāʾil / Ilyās Faraj Bāsīl.
    • 2. fol. 102a-103b: [blank]
    • 3. fol. 104a-113a: Kitābat baʻḍ ashʻār majmūʻah.
    • 4. fol. 113b-137a: Ashʻār min al-Fāriḍ / Ibn al-Fāriḍ.
    • 5. fol. 137b-138b: [Elegiac poem for Mīkhāʾīl Ḥabīlā] / Yūsuf Asbar al-Sabīʻ.
    • 6. fol. 138b-141b: Shiʻr Yūsuf al-Khūrī yadhummu bi-hi millat al-Rūm /Yūsuf al-Khūrī.
    • 7. fol. 141b-146a: Wa-qāla ayḍan shiʻr ʻalá ṣalb al-Masīḥ / Yūsuf al-Khūrī.
    • 8. fol. 146b-158a: Qaṣīdat ʻAntar alladhī ʻallaqahā ʻalá al-Bayt al-Ḥarām / ʻAntarah ibn Shaddād.
    • 9. fol. 158b-159b: [blank]
    • 10. fol. 160a-174a: Qiṣṣat Sayf al-Masīḥ wa-mā jará lahu.
    Source acquisition
    Purchase; Worldwide Antiquarian, 29/07/2010 (2011-16).
    References
    Brockelmann, GAL, SII, 752.
    Other title(s)
    • Kitābat baʻḍ ashʻār majmūʻah.
    • كتابة بعض اشعار مجموعة.
    • Qiṣṣat Sayf al-Masīḥ wa-mā jará lahu.
    • قصة سيف المسيح وما جرى له.
    OCLC
    655269420
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