• کتاب الحماسة.
  • Kitāb al-Ḥamāsah.

Language:
  • Arabic
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • 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:
  • Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800
Date:
  • 1100-1199
Author:
  • Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī, active 808-842
Creator:
  • Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʼī, active 808-842
Collections:
  • Middle East Manuscripts
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dczw12zh32k
Location:
  • Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10H
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