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Manuscript/Mixed Material [Rāmizah al-shāfīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qāfiyah] [رامزة الشافية في علم العروض والقافية]

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Title

  • [Rāmizah al-shāfīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qāfiyah]

Other Title

  • [رامزة الشافية في علم العروض والقافية]

Summary

  • Treatise in verse on the metres of Arabic versification.

Names

  • Khazrajī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUthmān, active 12th century-13th 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 component part.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title established by comparison with other manuscripts.
  • -  Text preceded by a short, unidentified poem on fol. 1b-2b with caption "al-awwal al-ṭawīl wa-baytih"
  • -  Written by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad.
  • -  With: Hādhā Sharḥ Muḥibb al-Dīn ibn Khalīl al-Baṣrawī al-Shāfiʻī ʻala al-Rāmizah al-shahīrah bi-al-Khazrajīyah.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; text surrounded by comments with many additional interlinear comments; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 312
  • -  Naskh; 11 lines in written area
  • -  Five circular diagrams in red and black on fol. 4a.
  • -  Fol. 3b-8b.
  • -  "H-1072 = 5.335."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-335.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه نستعين. وللشعر ميزان تسمى عروض بها النقض والرجحان تدريهما ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تمت القصيدة الشريفة في يد ذي الافعال الذميمة.

Medium

  • Leaves 3b-8b (11 lines), paper : bound ; 21 x 16 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PJ6171 .K4795 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498590

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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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:

Khazrajī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn ʻUthmān, Active 12Th Century-13Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Rāmizah Al-Shāfīyah Fī ʻilm Al-ʻarūḍ Wa-Al-Qāfiyah. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498590/.

APA citation style:

Khazrajī, ʻ. A. I. ʻ., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Rāmizah Al-Shāfīyah Fī ʻilm Al-ʻarūḍ Wa-Al-Qāfiyah. [18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498590/.

MLA citation style:

Khazrajī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn ʻUthmān, Active 12Th Century-13Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Rāmizah Al-Shāfīyah Fī ʻilm Al-ʻarūḍ Wa-Al-Qāfiyah. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017498590/>.