Taqdīm Abī Bakr
Contributors: Hagop Kevorkian Fund; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1490
Language: ara
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Poetry; Early works to 1800; Arabic Devotional poetry; Arabic Islamic poetry; Arabic language; Rhetoric; Style; Persian Manuscripts
Other titles: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Badīʻīyah; Khizānat al-adab wa-ghāyat al-arab.
Description: 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.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 3r).

Layout: 23 long lines.

Script: Written in clear naskh in black ink; pointed.

Decorations: Rubrications in red; title page and opening pages border-ruled in double red (f. 2r-3r).

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

Shelfmark: MS Or 447.

Quires (of five bifolia) marked in upper left recto (1-24).

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Presented by the Kevorkian Fund (library bookplate inside front cover).

Arabic.

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.

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