Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

U. 3 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: دیوان أبي فراس الحمداني The Diwán of Abú Firás al-Hamdání (b. 320/932; d. 357/968). See Brockel-
mann, 1, p. 89; Nicholson, op. laud., pp. 270 and 304.
This MS., also acquired from the Belshah collection on Nov. 12, 1920, comprises
76 ff. of 22.8 x 15 c. and 17 ll. It is written in a good fairly modern naskh,
unvocalized, with rubrications, and has no date or colophon. The short prose
preface begins:
قال ابو عبد الله الحسين بن محمد بن احمد بن خالويه من حلّ من الشرف السامي والفضل
النامي والكرم الداعى والأدب البارع والشجاعة المشهورة والسماحة الماثورة محل أبي فراس الحرث بن
سعيد بن حمدون بن الحرث العدوى

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 76
Dimensions: 22.8 × 15 cm.

Layout

17 lines

Hand(s)

Good fairly modern naskh, unvocalized, with rubrications

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Also acquired from the Belshahcollection on Nov. 12, 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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