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Manuscript/Mixed Material Sharḥ manẓūmah lāmīyah fī al-ādāb شرح منظومة لامية في الآدب

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Title

  • Sharḥ manẓūmah lāmīyah fī al-ādāb

Other Title

  • شرح منظومة لامية في الآدب

Summary

  • Poem on rhetoric with an accompanying commentary.

Names

  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17th century]

Headings

  • -  Dialectic--Poetry--Early works to 1800
  • -  Arabic language--Rhetoric--Poetry--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic and Persian.
  • -  Title from LC card file; manuscript lacks any indication of title or author.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of a fleur-de-lis within a decorative armorial device and the initials P and R on either side; black ink; text of poem in red; a poem in Persian and a copy of the Arabic poem without commentary at end; fol. 4b-5a have statements from the owner's donation to a waqf dated 1103 (1691 or 1692).
  • -  Nastaʻliq; 19 lines in written area 14 x 6 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-4b, 5a.
  • -  "48. V 2756 = 5.283."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-283.
  • -  Binding; dark morocco half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله اجمعين. اذا ما قلت قولا انت ناقل // فصح نقل ذلك للمقابل ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وانه عورضت بالتركيب تمنع // بانه دعواي في المدلول حاصل.

Medium

  • 8 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 21 x 15 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • B745.D48 S43 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496976

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ Manẓūmah Lāmīyah Fī Al-Ādāb. [17th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496976/.

APA citation style:

Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ Manẓūmah Lāmīyah Fī Al-Ādāb. [17th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496976/.

MLA citation style:

Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ Manẓūmah Lāmīyah Fī Al-Ādāb. [17th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496976/>.