al-Maqāmāt
Contributors: Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122; Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122; Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894, former owner; Saʻd ibn Fransīs Bāz Abū Shākir, active 1820, scribe; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1820
Place of publication: Dayr al-Qamar
Language: ara
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Arabic prose literature; Arabic Manuscripts; Maqamah
Description: Neatly written copy of the fifty anecdotes written in rhymed prose (sajʻ) framed as encounters between two characters, al-Ḥarith ibn Hammām, the narrator, and Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī followed by al-Risālah al-shīnīyah (f. 126v) and al-Risālah al-sīnīyah (f. 127v).
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 2v, 3r).

Layout: Chiefly 20 long lines; poetry in two columns.

Script: Written in modern naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Decoration: Textblock border ruled in red; up to f. 101r, rubrications in red and green with red and green dots punctuating the text and setting off lines of poetry, after that page, rubrications and dots only in red.

Origin: Copy completed over ten days in Ramaḍān, 1235 AH by Saʻd ibn Fransīs Bāz Abū Shākir from the village of Dayr al-Qamar (125v).

Shelfmark: X893.7 H22.

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Purchased through the Alexander I. Cotheal fund in 1896 (bookplate inside front cover).

Arabic.

Formerly owned by Alexander I. Cotheal (stamp f. 1r, 127v; seal f. 2r, 3r,127v; written f. 1r).

Brown leather over pasteboard; blind stamped central diamond with crossbars and frame; four blind stamped floral motifs in the corners and four leaf motifs mid-way along each side, at the points of the diamond.

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