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Summary of Contents: 3 works by Buhriy, Hemedi bin Abdallah on the subjects of Islamic poetry and Swahili poetry
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Author: Buhriy, Hemedi bin Abdallah
Title: Utenzi wa Kadhi Kasim bin Jaafari
Title: Utenzi wa Qadhwi Qasim

A story in verse

Incipit: Kala nitunge shairi, niname nitafakuri, muwini hadithi swaghiri, napenda kuwaswifiya
Language(s): Swahili

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Author: Buhriy, Hemedi bin Abdallah
Title: Utenzi wa Kadhi Kasim bin Jaafari

A story in verse

Incipit: Kala nitunge shairi, Niname natafakuri, Mbwene hadithi saghiri, napenda kuwaswifia
Language(s): Swahili

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Author: Buhriy, Hemedi bin Abdallah
Translator: Knappert, Jan
Title: Translation of Utenzi wa Kadhi Kasim bin Jaafari

A prose translation. In faint pencil

Incipit: I will set myself to construct a poem out of a little story that I have found and that I should like to tell you
Language(s): Swahili

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Form: codex
23 f. 27 f. 15 f.
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"Swahili Manuscripts Collections".

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