Description of Columbia University MS Or 447: Taqdīm Abī Bakr. Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 447: Taqdīm Abī Bakr. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 447: Taqdīm Abī Bakr.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. 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). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 447 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 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. Arabic Taqdīm Abī Bakr. تقديم ابي بكر Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī, -1434 ابن حجة الحموي، تقي الدين ابو بكر بن علي، Hagop Kevorkian Fund 2r Taqdīm Abī Bakr.

laid paper

 234 numbered leaves : 270 x 180 (192 x 127) mm, bound to 270 x 185 x 53 mm 23 long lines. Written in clear naskh in black ink; pointed. Notations Kabīkaj invocation Notations in Latin

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.

Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 895 AH (February 1490) (f. 231r).

1490 Presented by the Kevorkian Fund (library bookplate inside front cover). 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 Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents)