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

Title

Taqdīm Abī Bakr.
تقديم ابي بكر

Authors

• Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī, -1434
  ابن حجة الحموي، تقي الدين ابو بكر بن علي،
• Hagop Kevorkian Fund

Call number

MS Or 447
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14345926
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1123205395
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_447.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14345926

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1490

Summary

Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī's commentary on his own poem in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad. The title is given as Taqdīm Abī Bakr in the text, but is also known as Khizānat al-adab wa-ghāyat al-arab.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 3r).
   
• Decorations: Rubrications in red; title page and opening pages border-ruled in double red (f. 2r-3r).
   
• Quires (of five bifolia) marked in upper left recto (1-24).
   

Extent

234 numbered leaves : 270 x 180 (192 x 127) mm, bound to 270 x 185 x 53 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard; blind stamped central medallion with metallic dots in the center and around the edge; blind-tooled frame also with metallic dots in the corners; brown leather doublure.

Layout

23 long lines.

Script

Written in clear naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Presented by the Kevorkian Fund (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Devotional poetry, Arabic--Early works to 1800
• Islamic poetry, Arabic--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Style--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Taqdīm Abī Bakr.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 1r — Kabīkaj invocation
• fol. 2r — Notations in Latin