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Summary of Contents: سقط الزند لأبي العلاء المعري A fine old MS., acquired from the Belshah collection in January, 1920, of the
poems of Abu'l-'Alá al-Ma'arrí (b. 363/973; d. 449/1057), most or all of them from
the Siqtu'z-Zand. See Brockelmann, 1, pp. 254-255; Nicholson, op. laud., pp. 313-324, etc. This MS., written in a large, bold naskh, the verses fully vocalized, the inter-
vening commentary in a rather smaller hand less fully vocalized, is, unfortunately,
defective both at the beginning and end, but appears to have been transcribed in
the 13th or 14th Christian century. In its present state it comprises 174 ff. of
18.7 × 14'3 c. and 14 ll., and begins : وان توافق في معنى بَنُوزمَن فَإِن جل المعاني غير متفق

قد يبعد اللي مِنْ شَيْ يُشَابِيهان السماء نظير الماء في الزرق
Author: Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, 973-1057 ابو العلاء المعري
Title: Zaqṭ al-zand li-Abī al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī
Title: زقط الزند لابي العلاء المعري

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 174
Dimensions: 18.7 × 14.3 cm.

Layout

14 lines

Hand(s)

Large, bold naskh; verses fully vocalized; commentary less fully vocalized.

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired from the Belshah collection in January, 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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