دواني، محمد بن أسعد، 1426 أو 1427-1512 أو 1513.

al-Risālah al-qalamīyah / Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī. -- [1525].

الرسالة القلمية / محمد بن أسعد الدواني. -- [1525].

Alternate title: Risālat al-yarāʻah.

عنوان آخر: رسالة اليراعة.

Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Nūn wa-al-qalam wa-mā yasṭurūn. Inna hādhihi tadhkirah li-qawm yaqtulūn [yaʻqilūn]. Yā man fāqa fī al-barāʻah saʼaltanī ʻan waṣf al-yarāʻah ..."

البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... ن والقلم وما يسطرون. إن هذه تذكرة لقوم يقتلون [يعقلون]. يا من فاق في البراعة سألتني عن وصف اليراعة ..."

Hasty nastaʻlīq.

Islamic binding, in brown.

No. 13 of 15 titles bound together.

Colophon: "ʻAlá yad ... Muḥammad ibn Murād bi-baldat Qusṭanṭanīyah ..."

الخاتمة: "على يد ... محمد بن مراد ببلدة قسطنطنية ..."

Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the hand of ... Muḥammad ibn Murād in the city of Qusṭanṭanīyah [Constantinople] ..."

Essay in praise of the reed pen.

Preceded by 1 page of notes.

Copied in Constantinople about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525).

Risālat al-yarāʻah

رسالة اليراعة

Brockelmann, II, 218; S II, p. 308.

Vienna catalog (Flügel), 2003 (40).

Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī, al-Risālah al-qalamīyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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