Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Maqāmāt.
المقامات

Authors

• Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122
  حريري،
• Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122
  حريري،
• Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122
  حريري،

Other related names

• Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894, former owner
• Saʻd ibn Fransīs Bāz Abū Shākir, active 1820, scribe
  سعد بن فرنسيس باز ابو شاكر،

Call number

X893.7 H22
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14011099
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1106031611
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X893_7_H22.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14011099

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1820

Place

Dayr al-Qamar

Summary

Neatly written copy of the fifty anecdotes written in rhymed prose (sajʻ) framed as encounters between two characters, al-Ḥarith ibn Hammām, the narrator, and Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī followed by al-Risālah al-shīnīyah (f. 126v) and al-Risālah al-sīnīyah (f. 127v).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 2v, 3r).
   

Extent

Ii, 127, iii leaves : 245 x 180 (185 x 120) mm, bound to 251 x 187 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard; blind stamped central diamond with crossbars and frame; four blind stamped floral motifs in the corners and four leaf motifs mid-way along each side, at the points of the diamond.

Layout

Chiefly 20 long lines; poetry in two columns.

Script

Written in modern naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Purchased through the Alexander I. Cotheal fund in 1896 (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Alexander I. Cotheal (stamp f. 1r, 127v; seal f. 2r, 3r,127v; written f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Arabic prose literature--11th century
• Arabic prose literature--12th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Maqamah

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Maqāmāt
• fol. 126v — Risālah al-shīnīyah
• fol. 127v — Risālah al-sīnīyah