Details
Object numberMS 1493 [Handlist 75b]
TitleDīwān
Creatoral-Khaṭṭāb (Author)
DescriptionThis copy contains the same 26 poems as the manuscript just described, followed by the same two extracts from poem no. 6 that ‘Alī b. Sa‘īd included on folios 99a-100b and 109a in his anthology. It seems thus very likely that this manuscript was copied from manuscript 1492. The scribe's name is indicated on fol. 1a in secret script as Hibat ‘Alī Ismā‘īl al-Masārī, and another note on the same page states (in ordinary Arabic script) that it was sold by al-faqīh Hibat ‘Alī al-Masārī to sayyidī al-shaykh al-fāḍil al-Ḥusayn ‘Alī al-Masārī.
DESCRIPTION: cloth binding with red leather spine and trim; 24 folios; catchwords; 21.5 x 15 em (size of written area varies); mostly 15lines, with some variation; black ink with rubrics and (on some pages)
mid-verse markers in red (the rubrics become less frequent in the second half of the manuscript, with blank spaces for some of them); idiosyncratic naskh, fully vocalised down to fol. 11, thereafter only sporadically
vocalised; very few marginal corrections/variants; copied by Hibat ‘Alī (b.) Ismā‘īl al-Masārī (as discussed above); title and author indicated in the heading on fol. lb.
DESCRIPTION: cloth binding with red leather spine and trim; 24 folios; catchwords; 21.5 x 15 em (size of written area varies); mostly 15lines, with some variation; black ink with rubrics and (on some pages)
mid-verse markers in red (the rubrics become less frequent in the second half of the manuscript, with blank spaces for some of them); idiosyncratic naskh, fully vocalised down to fol. 11, thereafter only sporadically
vocalised; very few marginal corrections/variants; copied by Hibat ‘Alī (b.) Ismā‘īl al-Masārī (as discussed above); title and author indicated in the heading on fol. lb.
DocumentationBlois, François de. Arabic, Persian and Gujarati Manuscripts: The Hamdani Collection. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2011.
Object typemanuscript