- کتاب الحماسة.
- Kitāb al-Ḥamāsah.
- Language:
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- Arabic
- Call number:
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- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H
- Format:
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Description:
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- Copied in Cairo, A.H. 588 [A.D. 1192] by al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḍar ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Asadī.
- Fols. 126; 24 x 17.7 cm.; written surface 20 x 11 cm.; 17 lines to page; on Arabic paper; in beautiful naskhi; full vowel signs; with catchwords.
- A collection of poems on bravery in war.
- Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم وبه استعىن. قال رجل من بَلْعَنْبَر
- Colophon: آخر الحماسة والحمد لله رب العالمىن وصلّى الله على سىدنا محمد نبىّه وسلم وعلى آله - وکتب الحسىن بن مُضر ابن الحسىن الاسدي بالقاهرة وکان الفراغ في شهر جمادى الاخرة من سنة ثمان وثمانىن وخمسماىة
- Marginal notes and headings of chapters in red; interlinear notes in black; in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended; folios 2, 7 are replaced by a later copyist.
- Arabic leather binding with flap; blind stamped on both covers and flap. On title page is a seal of ownership bearing the name al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, dated A.H. [1] 279 [A.D. 1862], and above it is another Arabic seal with words, "Whatever God pleases, there is no god but Allāh". MS is one of oldest in collection.
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3281/2; Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 395/6; Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 567/8.
- Printed with commentary in Bonn, A.D. 1828; Būlāq, A.H. 1296.
- Subject:
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- Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800
- Date:
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- 1100-1199
- Author:
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- Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī, active 808-842
- Creator:
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- Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī, active 808-842
- Collections:
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- Middle East Manuscripts
- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/dczw12zh32k
- Location:
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- Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H
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