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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Manẓūmah fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd كتاب منظومة في المقصور والممدود / / Manẓūmah fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd

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Title

  • Kitāb Manẓūmah fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd

Other Title

  • كتاب منظومة في المقصور والممدود /
  • Manẓūmah fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd

Summary

  • Poem on Arabic grammar and inflection.

Names

  • Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 837 or 838-933
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17th century?]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  "al-Risālah al-ḥāmisah."
  • -  The author's name does not appear in the manuscript; established by comparison with printed text of poem.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; polished, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; leaves have outer ruled border of a single red line; text enclosed within a ruled border of two thin red lines; black ink with section headings in red; comments on various words and terms in margin between inner and outer borders; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 112
  • -  Calligraphic naskh; 14 lines in written area 14.5 x 6.5 cm
  • -  Fol. 1b-5b.
  • -  "H-0793 = 4.457."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-457.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. لا تركنن الى الهوى، واحذر مفارقة الهوآء، يوما تصير الى الثرى، ويفوز غيرك بالثرآء ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... شمس الصحى طلعت عليك، ولا ترى شمس الضحاء. تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه.

Medium

  • 5 leaves (14 lines), paper : bound ; 21 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PJ6131 .I2195 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498589

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:

Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad Ibn Al-Ḥasan, 837 Or 838-933, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Manẓūmah fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498589/.

APA citation style:

Ibn Durayd, M. I. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Manẓūmah fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd. [17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498589/.

MLA citation style:

Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad Ibn Al-Ḥasan, 837 Or 838-933, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Manẓūmah fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498589/>.