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8 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Arabic poetry, Inheritance and succession, Qasidas, Arabic language, Arabic proverbs, Aphorisms and apothegms, and Complaint poetry

MS. Pococke 33

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For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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Title

8 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Arabic poetry, Inheritance and succession, Qasidas, Arabic language, Arabic proverbs, Aphorisms and apothegms, and Complaint poetry

Shelfmark

MS. Pococke 33

Language

Arabic

Persian

Contents

1. ff. 3v-9r Author: Ibn al-Mutafanninah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1103 or 4-1181 or 2 Raḥbī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, ‏1103 or 1104-1181 or 1182 رحبي، محمد بن علي Title: al-Urjūzah al-Raḥbīyah Title: Bughyat al-bāḥith ʻan jumal al-mawārith
2. ff. 9v-13r Author: Bulaythī, or Balathī, Abū al-Fatḥ ʻUthmān ibn ʻĪsá, 1130-1202 Title: al-Qaṣīdat al-ḥirbāwīyah
3. ff. 14r-23v Author: Ibn al-Dahhān, Saʻīd ibn al-Mubārak, 1101-1174 Title: Qaṣīdah
4. ff. 24v-127r Title: Muʻallaqāt
5. ff. 128v-182r Author: Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, fl. 1261 Title: al-Amthāl wa-al-ḥikam
6. ff. 182v-186r Author: Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr Title: Bānat Suʻād Title: Qaṣīdat al-Burdah
7. ff. 187v-191r Author: Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, 1061 or 2-1121? Title: Lāmīyat al-ʻajam
8. ff. 192v-216r Author: Mutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 915 or 16-965 Title: Dīwān

Form

codex

Physical extent

7 ff. 5 ff. 10 ff. 104 ff. 55 ff. 5 ff. 5 ff. 25 ff.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1692.

Provenance

The collections of Edward Pococke, d. 1691 .

Subject

Arabic language--Grammar

Arabic poetry--To 622

Aphorisms and apothegms

Arabic poetry--750-1258

Arabic proverbs

Complaint poetry, Arabic

Arabic poetry

Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)

Qasidas

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  • Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, fl. 1261

  • Mutanabbī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 915 or 6-965

  • Ibn al-Mutafanninah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1103 or 4-1181 or 2

  • Ibn al-Dahhān, Saʻīd ibn al-Mubārak, 1101-1174

  • Balaṭī, ʻUthmān ibn ʻĪsá, 1130-1202

  • Pococke, Edward, 1604-1691

  • Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr

  • Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, 1061 or 2-ca. 1121

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