Biographies composed in rhymed prose of viziers and secretaries, jurists and judges
as well as littérateurs and poets from Muslim Spain. The work exists in three edited
versions. Our ms. represents the short version and falls into three chapters (qism). f.45a: biographical notes on the author taken from Wafayāt al-aʿyān wa-anbāʾ abnāʾ al-zamān
by Abū al-ʿAbbās Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Bakr Ibn Khallikān
al-Barmakī al-Irbilī al-Shāfiʿī (d. 681/1282; EI2 III/832-833; GAL I/326-328 S I/561;
Kaḥḥālah II/59-60; Ziriklī I/220) ff. 90b-91a: notes on the life and work of the author in the hand of the copyist from part 1 and
2 of the MS according to: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ibn ʿAbd al-Malik Ibn Saʿīd al-ʿAnsī al-Andalusī al-Maghribī
(d. 673/1274-1275 oder 685/1286-1287; GAL I/336-337 S I/; Kaḥḥālah VII/249; Ziriklī
V/26): Kitāb al-mughrib fī ḥulāʾ al-Maghrib Abū al-Khaṭṭāb ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn Diḥyah al-Kalbī al-Sabtī al-Andalusī al-Balansī
(d. 633/1235; GAL I/310-312 S I/544-545; Kaḥḥālah VII/280-281; Ziriklī V/44): Kitāb
al-Muṭrib min ashʿār ahl al-Maghrib Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khātimah al-Anṣārī (d. about 770/1369;
GAL II/259 S II/369; Kaḥḥālah II/19-20; Ziriklī I/176) Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd Ibn al-Khaṭīb Lisān al-Dīn (d. 776/1374;
GAL II/260-263 S II/372-373; Kaḥḥālah X/216-217; Ziriklī VI/235): al-Iḥāṭah bi-tārīkh
al-Gharnāṭā Aḥmad of the Maghārībah = probably meant: Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maqqarī (d. 1041/1631-1632;
EI2 VI/187-188; GAL II/296-297 S II/407-408; Kaḥḥālah II/78-79; Ziriklī I/237): Nafḥ
al-ṭīb min ghuṣn al-Andalus al-ratīb wa-dhikr wazīrihā Lisān al-Dīn al-Khaṭīb Ibn Khallikān: Wafayāt al-aʿyān wa-anbāʾ abnāʾ al-zamān From f. 93b follow poems by various poets copied by different hands. f. 93b: three poems by Aḥmad al-Kurdī al-Kūrānī (Kawrānī). In the first poem, he records the
circumcision of the two sons of Yaḥyá al-Tājī (= ? Yaḥyá ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tājī
al-Ḥalabī al-Baʾlī al-Ḥanafī, d. 1158/1745; Kaḥḥālah XIII/205-206; Ziriklī VIII/153),
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Muḥammad, which occurred in the middle of the month of Dhū al-Qaʿdah
1129/October-November 1717. ff. 94a-101b: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Sahl al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ishbīlī (d. 649/1251; GAL I/273-274 S I/483;
Kaḥḥālah I/37; Ziriklī I/42-43): Hādhihī al-Sabʿah ak-sayyārah al-ūlá f. 101b: poem on the rhyming letter rāʾ by Saʿd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Ibn Muḥyī
al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī al-Jawbān (d. 656/1258; GAL I/448 S I/802-803; Kaḥḥālah XI/248-249;
Ziriklī VII/29) f. 103b: poem on the rhyming letter rāʾ by Abu-'l-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Hāniʾ ibn Muḥammad ibn
Saʿdūn al-Andalusī al-Azdī (d. 362/973; GAL I/91 S I/146-147; GAS II/654-655; Kaḥḥālah
XII/88-89; Ziriklī VII/130) poem on the rhyming letter rāʾ by Sharaf al-Dīn Abu-'l-Maḥāsin Muḥammad ibn Naṣr Allāh
ibn al-Ḥusayn (al-Ḥasan) Ibn ʿUnayn al-Anṣārī al-Kūfī al-Ḥawrānī al-Dimashqī (d. 630/1233;
GAL I/318 S I/551; Kaḥḥālah XII/79; Ziriklī VII/125-126) f. 104a: poem by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿImādī al-Dimashqī (d. 1135/1723;
GAL II/280; Kaḥḥālah VIII/206; Ziriklī V/304) poem on the rhyming letter tāʾ by Ḥusām al-Dīn ʿĪsā ibn Sinjar ibn Bahrām ibn Jibrīl
ibn Khumārtakīn ibn Ṭashtakīn al-Ḥājirī (d. 632/1235; GAL I/249 S I/443; Kaḥḥālah
VIII/25; Ziriklī IV/103) poem by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī al-Shāfiʿī (d. 505/1111;
EI2 II/1038-1041; GAL I/419-426 S I/744-756; Kaḥḥālah XI/266-269; Ziriklī VII/22-23)
poem on the rhyming letter hāʾ by Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn Zurayq al-Khayrī
al-Jabartī (d. 977/1569; GAL S II/157; Kaḥḥālah X/299; Ziriklī VI/292) ff. 105b-106b: poem by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥijāzī al-Qāhirī
al-Khazrajī al-ʿUbādī (d. 875/1471; GAL II/18 S II/11-12; Kaḥḥālah II/129-130; Ziriklī
I/230) ff. 106b-108a: three poems by ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Burʿī al-Yamānī (d. 803/1400; GAL
I/259 S I/459; Kaḥḥālah V/202; Ziriklī III/343) three poems by Abū al-Najāḥ Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī
Dark brown Oriental leather binding with fore-edge flap and envelope flap; fore-edge
flap and spine have been renewed; frame constists of two gilt borders with S-stamps
and a gilt border of interlace pattern; doublures of paper; slipcase of red leather
with gold-sprinkled coloured paper
ʿUnwān: the upper alcove-shaped part consists of a gold hasp motif with golden ornamental
rays; the lower rectangular part framed in gold contains the basmalah in red
History of the object
Entstehung
Date
↳ copy
f. 89b: 3 Muḥarram 1162/24 December 1748
Scribe
↳ other name form(s)
p. 1, f. 44b:
Aḥmad [ibn Muḥammad] al-Falāqinsī
(d. 1173/1759; cf. http://www.refaiya.uni-leipzig.de/receive/CommonVIAF_viaf_00000628)
