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1 copy of Sharḥ al-Muʿallaqāt by Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā al-Tibrīzī

Language(s): Arabic

Title: Sharḥ al-Muʿallaqāt
Title: شرح المعلقات
Author: Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā al-Tibrīzī ابو زكريا التبريزي
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيمز قال الشيخ رحمه الله تعالى سألني بعض الاصدقاء ادام الله الدايم بقاه ... أن أشرح له القصائد السبع
Explicit: فعلى اضمار مبتدا كانه قال هي فلاة في دونها افلاء
Colophon: تم الشرح المبارك بعون الله تعالى في غرة شهر صفر الخير سنة ۱۱۸۲ غفر الله لكابيه آمين

Contents as follows: Imruʾ 'l-Qays ff1v-30r; Ṭarafa ff30r-52r; Zuhayr ff50r-65v; Labīd ff65v-89r; ʿAntara ff89r-106v; ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm ff106v-124r; al-Ḥārith ff124r-140v.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Thin white European paper. Watermarks located towards the margin. Mostly obscured.
Extent: ff.i+140+i
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

Textblock in excellent condition. Binding lightly damaged, particularly on spine.

Layout

Hand(s)

Clear black ink naskh. Poetry written in red ink.

Decoration

Additions:

Jones has made annotations throughout the manuscript, particularly indicating the sections authored by al-Tibrīzī, the metres of the poetry and transliterating the Arabic.

Binding

Brown leather and board binding with gilded decoration.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1_Ṣafar_1182 AH; 17 June 1768 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. This manuscript was presented by Lady Jones.

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p.68 no.CIII

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