Subject: Poetry - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1423/1/84
Title:: العرف الندي في شرح لامية ابن الوردي : المسماة، بنصيحة الاخوان ومرشدة الخلان / للشيخ نجم الدين محمد بن أحمد بن جابر القرشي العامري الشافعي المعروف بإبن الشيخ رضي الدين الغزي الدمشقي سنة 1094 هـ. 1682 م.
Scope & Content:: The interpretation of the L. poem (Lamiyya) of Arabic poetry composed by Ibn al-Wardi. It is also called the Advice of brothers and the guide for beloved persons because it contains advice in poetry style to his son to follow Islamic ethics. |If you would like to view the Arabic language descrip...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1639
Extent:: 194 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1423/1/96
Title:: مجموعة في الأدب والتراجم والشعر والمواعظ واللطائف والتفاسير والفتاوى والفلك وغيرها من الفوائد / جمعها بخطه محمد امين بن عمر الزهدي بن الحاج ابراهيم آغا، الشهير بإبن زيتونه الدمشقي.
Scope & Content:: Collected works of Arabic literature, poetry, sermons, Islamic fik-h interpretation, fatwas, astronomy and biographies. |If you would like to view the Arabic language description in the AUB catalogue, please go to : https://libcat.aub.edu.lb/record=b2623492. Extent: 490 pages + Geneological tre...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1852
Extent:: 522 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1244
Title:: بکٹ کہانی Bikaṭ kahānī
Scope & Content:: A Barahmasah poem, by Muhammad Afdal Gopal (d.1625). Of this poetic tradition, Francesca Orsini writes ‘in thiskind of poem an abandoned woman (virahini or birahini) pines forher absent lover or husband and describes her pitiful state, month after month,against the backdrop of seasonal changes a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Hindi, and Urdu
Date Range:: end of 18th century
Extent:: 20 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2768
Title:: Divan-i Chanda
Scope & Content:: The divan of the first female Urdu poet, Mahliqa or Chanda Bai, a courtesan in Hyderabad in the Deccan during the reign of Nizam Ali Khan (1761-1803 CE). The Divan is prefixed by a Persian preface dated 1213 AH (1798 CE), and contains the following inscription in English on the fly-leaf: "The Diw...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1798
Extent:: Codex (ff 34)

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