Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, X8937 H22

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DS ID:

DS6677

Shelfmark:

X8937 H22

Title:

al-Maqāmāt

Author:

Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122 / حريري، 1054-1122

Abu al-Hariri WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Saʻd ibn Fransīs Bāz Abū Shākir, active 1820 / سعد بن فرنسيس باز ابو شاكر، active 1820،

Saʻd ibn Fransīs Bāz Abū Shākir WIKIDATA

Place:

Dayr al-Qamar

Date:

1820.

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 127, iii leaves : laid paper ; 245 x 180 (185 x 120) mm, bound to 251 x 187 mm

Former Owner(s):

Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894

Alexander Isaac Cotheal WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from introduction (f. 2v, 3r).
Layout: Chiefly 20 long lines; poetry in two columns.
Script: Written in modern naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
Decoration: Textblock border ruled in red; up to f. 101r, rubrications in red and green with red and green dots punctuating the text and setting off lines of poetry, after that page, rubrications and dots only in red.
Origin: Copy completed over ten days in Ramaḍān, 1235 AH by Saʻd ibn Fransīs Bāz Abū Shākir from the village of Dayr al-Qamar (125v).
Shelfmark: X893.7 H22.
Formerly owned by Alexander I. Cotheal (stamp f. 1r, 127v; seal f. 2r, 3r,127v; written f. 1r).

Keyword:

blind-tooled (decoration)

manuscripts (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Arabic prose literature

Maqamah

1000-1199

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14734798

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14734798_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library