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Sīrat ʻAntarah, Al-Juzʼ 12
Uniform Title
ʻAntar (Romance)
Title
Sīrat ʻAntarah, [16--?]. Al-Juzʼ 12.
سيرة عنترة، [16--؟]. الجزء 12.
Physical Description
1 v. ([122] leaves) ; 23 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Starts with: "... aqsama bi-hādhihi al-aqsām wa-waqaʻa fī qalbihi min hādhihi al-umūr awhām fa-ʻinda dhālika ḥalafa ʻAmr ibn al-Shadīd bi-al-ālihah wa-al-aṣnām wa-bi-Rabb al-Bayt al-Ḥarām alladhī anshaʼahu al-anām wa-sayr al-ghamām annahu lā yadhkuru ism aḥad minhum ilá thalāthat ayyām thumma innahu aʻṭā [aʻṭá] ilá Qays mawthiqan wa-dhimām ʻalá dhālika al-kalām fa-ʻinda dhālika ḥallahu Qays min withāqihi wa-anʻama ʻalayhi bi-iṭlāqihi ..."
يبدأ بـِ: "... ..."
16.5 x 22.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 16 cm, 15 lines per page.
Bound.
In fair naskh script, in black ink on white paper; catchwords.
On cover an ownership note: "al-Thānī ʻashar min ʻAntar ʻadad 12 min kitāb al-Ḥājj Ḥasan Maʻtūq ibn al-Ḥājj Ḥamzah Maʻtūq ʻaddad waraqihi 122."
على الغلاف تملك: "الثاني عشر من عنتر عدد 12 من كتاب الحاج حسن معتوق بن الحاج حمزة معتوق عدد ورقه 122."
On leaf 1a: "al-Thānī ʻashar min ʻAntar."
على وجه الورقة 1: "الثاني عشر من عنتر."
Ends with: "... lākin wa-ḥaqq dhimmat al-ʻArab lam azāl ʻalá Banī ʻAbs al-ashrār ḥattá innī mā adaʻ minhum dayyār wa-lā nāfikh yanfukhu lahum nār wa-lā budda lī mā ukātib ʻalayhim sāyir al-ʻUrbān alladhī lahā ʻalayhim al-dimā wa-al-thār wa-aqlaʻu minhum al-āthār. Thumma innahu amara min waqtihi wa-sāʻatihi ilá Banī ʻĀmir an yarfaʻū al-ḥarīm wa-al-māl ilá rūs [ruʼūs] al-jibāl wa-mā aṣbaḥa al-ṣabāḥ illā wa-kull ..."
ينتهي بـِ: "... لكن وحق ذمة العرب لم أزال على بني عبس الأشرار حتى إني ما أدع منهم ديّار ولا نافخ ينفخ لهم نار ولا بدّ لي ما أكاتب عليهم ساير العربان الذي لها عليهم الدما والثار وأقلع منهم الآثار. ثم إنه امر من وقته وساعته إلى بني عامر أن يرفعوا الحريم والمال إلى روس [رؤوس] الجبال وما أصبح الصباح إلّا وكل ..."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Summary
Volume twelve of Sīrat ʻAntarah (in 45 volumes), a popular romance based on the life and deeds of ʻAntarah ibn Shaddād al-ʻAbsī, a pre-Islamic Arab knight and poet who lived in the 6th century. The ʻAntarah saga is still being recited by traditional story-tellers (ḥakawātīs) in coffee houses in the Middle East. The complete set was owned by al-Ḥājj Ḥasan Maʻtūq ibn al-Ḥajj Ḥamzah Maʻtūq (could not be identified). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 17th century.
Variant and related titles
Thānī ʻashar min ʻAntar
ثاني عشر من عنتر
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 23, 2016
References
Sīrat ʻAntarah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Sīrat ʻAntarah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 17th century.
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