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Summary of Contents: 4 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Arabic poetry, Sufi poetry, and Aphorisms and apothegms
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Author: Sukkarī, Abū Saʻīd al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn, 827 or 8-888 or 9 سكري، ابو سعيد الحسن بن الحسين
Title: Ashʻār al-Hudhalīyīn
Title: اشعار الهذلیین

Poetry of the Hudhali bards Compiled by al-Sukkārī in the recension of (riwāyah) Rummānī, ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá, -994 via Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Abī Sahl al-Ḥulwānī.

Incipit: يوم طهر الحرة شعر العجلان بن خليل حدثنا احمد بن محمد الحلواني قال حدثنا ابو سعيد قال الجمحي كان من شان بني ماهلة بن كاهل بن الحرث بن تميم بن سعد بن هذيل انهم كانوا حربا لبني سليم ...

Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.28
2.
Author: Ibn al-Fāriḍ, ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī, 1181 or 2-1235 ابن الفارض، عمر بن علي
Title: Dīwān ʻUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ
Title: ديوان عمر بن الفارض

Collection of verses gathered by Ibn al-Fāriḍ's grandson ‘Alī, which according to him were missed out in various copies of his grandfather's Dīwān. Transcribed from a manuscript dated Raj. 993/1585, present date not given

Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اختص حبيبه الاسني بمقام او ادنى ... قال الفقير المعترف ... علي سبط الشيخ ابن الفارض ... نظرت فى نسخ من ديوان شيخنا قدس ... الله سره ... فرايت النساخ جهلوا بغض كلامه
Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.56
3.
Author: Luqmān, the Sage
Title: Hādhihi amthāl Luqmān al-ḥakīm
Title: هذه امثال لقمان الحکیم

Mathal 1-41. Copied by Mīkhāʾīl Shām for Armand Pierre Caussin de Perceval in 1820

Incipit: المثل الاول قال اسد مرة خرج على ثورين فاجتمعا جميعا وكانا ينطحان بقرونهما ولا يمكناه ... من الدخول بينهما
Colophon: واما نساخته کتابنا هذا نقل فی محروسة باريس الي...الخواجا کوسین بید میخایل شام...فی شباط سنه 1820
Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.14
4.
Author: Luqmān, the Sage
Title: Kitāb amthāl wa-maʻānī Luqmān al-ḥakīm
Title: کتاب امثال ومعانی لقمان الحکیم

Mathal 1-36. Transcribed from a copy produced by Ṣabbāgh, Mīkhāʾīl ibn Niqūlā, 1775 or 1776-1816 for J.J. Marcel, Director of the Imprimerie Nationale at Bulaq

Incipit: المثل الاول قال اسد مرة خرج على ثورين فاجتمعا جميعا وكانا ينطحان بقرونهما ولا يمكناه ... من الدخول بينهما
Colophon: بید...میخایل ابن نقولا صباغ ..وذلک باسم ...رییس المطبعة ومديرها مولاي الخواجا مرسيل
Language(s): Arabic

References

view the printed catalogue Gacek no.15

Physical Description

Form: codex
1b-8b f. 9b-23a f. 25b-35a f. 39b-50b f.
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Hand(s)

Cursive Naskhi hand

History

Origin: 1929 CE

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on Adam Gacek : Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981".

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