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RSPA 106

Record Id:
032-003475269
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 106
Title:
1 copy of Kitāb al-Ḥamāsah by Abū Tammām
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff.iii+203+iv
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1788
End Date:
1788
Date Range:
1788
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʾī, fl 0808-0842,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000114736762,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/62346122
Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʾī, fl 0808-0842,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000114736762,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/62346122
Ḥajj ʿAbd Allāh al-Makkī
Subjects:
Arabic poetry--History and criticism--Early works to 1800
TEI:

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 106

Contents

1 copy of Kitāb al-Ḥamāsah by Abū Tammām

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 1r-203v
Title: Kitāb al-Ḥamāsah
Title: كتاب الحماسة
Author: Abū Tammām أبو تمام

This ms has a title page f.1r in Arabic which includes an index.

Jones wrote two prefatory notes. On f.1v "This book was copied from a manuscript on transparent paper traced at Oxford on an inestimable copy of the Hamasah which Pocock had brought from Aleppo and on which he set a high value. I gave ten guineas to the boy who traced it and I value this book at least at twenty guineas. W. Jones 26th Nov 1788". On f2r "The Hamasah or Ancient Arabian Poems collected by Abu Temmam".

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. باب الحماسة. قال بعض شعراء بلعنب واسمه قريظ ابن أنيف.
Explicit: انقضى الباب ةبانقضائه تم كتاب الحماسة
Colophon: قد تم هذا التحرير بأمر قدوة الأكابر وعدوة الأعيان وعين الوجود والزمان فخر القضاة والحكام محرر القضايا والأحكام مخدومنا سر وليم يونس الذي هو أحد حكام العدالة العالية السلطانية بدار الأمارة كلكتة المحمية على يد زاير الحرمين الشريفين الحاج عبد الله المكي وذلك يوم الجمعة المباركة الثاني من شهر صفر الخير سنة ألف مايتين وثلاثة من الهجرة والحمد لله رب العالمين.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Pro patria, GR, J.W. and Taylor watermarks on strong cream European paper.
Extent: ff.iii+203+iv
Dimensions (leaf): 315 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

There is hardly any damage; f.127 and f.128 are ripped but have been repaired. The binding is slightly damaged between f.1 and endpaper.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 13

Hand(s)

Black thuluth script with rubrications in the hand of al-Ḥajj ʿAbd Allāh al-Makkī

Decoration

The pages are part-burnished over the text and have gilding around the edge.

Additions:

There are many annotations by Jones particularly in chapters 1 (Ḥamāsah), 2 (Marāthī) and 4 (Nasīb). These are principally the metre on certain poems and translations of others (of either the whole or a part) into English. There are also some notes in Latin. He also occasionally transliterates the name of the poet and write a note about him, e.g f.125v.

Binding

Half-leather India Office maroon-brown binding with marbled endpapers

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1788-11-02 2_Ṣafar_1203 AH; 2 November 1788 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. According to Wilkins, this manuscript was presented by Sir William Jones.

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p. 70 no. CVI

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