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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Amthilat al-ʻarūḍ كتاب أمثلة العروض /

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Title

  • Kitāb Amthilat al-ʻarūḍ

Other Title

  • كتاب أمثلة العروض /

Summary

  • Examples and explanations of various poetical meters.

Names

  • Yaʻqūb ibn Aḥmad, active 10th/11th century?
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18th century?]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by ʻAlī ibn Mūsá ibn ʻAlī ibn Mūsá ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī.
  • -  Author's identity uncertain; perhaps to be identified with Ibn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb, contemporary of ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʻālibī (961 or 962-1037 or 1038) mentioned in Tatimmat al-Yatīma, ed. Iqbāl (1934), II p. 20); OCLC record number 1041993750.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; polished, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lnes and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 14 x 8 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-2b.
  • -  "49. V 2827 = 5.356."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-356.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. قال يعقوب بن احمد رحمه الله العروض ميزان الشعر يعرف به صحيحه ومعوجه من مستقيمه ماخترعها ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تمت امثلة العروض بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وذلك على يد العبد الضعيف راجي عفو مولاه اللطيف علي بن موسى بن علي بن موسى بن يوسف الرشيدي ونشأ عفا الله عنه وغفر له ولواديه ولمسلمين ملمن قرا في هذه الكتاب دعا له المغفرة امين.

Medium

  • 2 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 22.3 x 15.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PJ6171 .Y37 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503198

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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YaʻQūb Ibn Aḥmad, Active 10Th/11Th Century?, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Amthilat al-ʻarūḍ. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503198/.

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YaʻQūb Ibn Aḥmad, A. 1. C., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Amthilat al-ʻarūḍ. [18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503198/.

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YaʻQūb Ibn Aḥmad, Active 10Th/11Th Century?, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Amthilat al-ʻarūḍ. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503198/>.