Ḥikāyat Maḥmūd al-Wardī wa-Ḍawʼ al-Baṣar Yāsmīn

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Creator

Zamīr, Dāʼūd.

زمير، داؤد.

Title

Ḥikāyat Maḥmūd al-Wardī wa-Ḍawʼ al-Baṣar Yāsmīn / taṣnīf al-Shaykh Dāʼūd al-Zamīr. -- 1785.

حكاية محمود الوردي وضوء البصر ياسمين / تصنيف الشيخ داؤد الزمير. -- 1785.

Physical Description

287 leaves (in 1 volume) ; 21.5 x 18 cm.

Language

Arabic; English

Notes

Incipit: "Ḥikāyat Maḥmūd al-Wardī ibn Muṣṭafá al-Sharīf min nasl al-Rashīd suṭān maḥrūsat Baghdād ... wa-mā jará ʻalayhi lammā rāḥ li-madīnat al-Aṣbahān li-yamhur bint Wazīr [al-Wazīr] al-Aʻẓam, wazīr Sulṭān Shāh, wa-kāna ismuhā Ḍawʼ al-Baṣar Yāsmīn ..."

البداية: "حكاية محمود الوردي بن مصطفى الشريف من نسل الرشيد سطان محروست بغداد ... وما جرى عليه لما راح لمدينة الأصبهان ليمهر بنت وزير [الوزير] الأعظم، وزير سلطان شاه، وكان اسمها ضوء البصر ياسمين ..."

Coarse Maghribī.

Title as above, on folio 1a, preceded by: "Taṣnīf al-Shaykh Dāwūd al-Zamīr fī madīnat Kambrij ... Shahr Muḥarram [Muḥarram] al-aḥrām [al-aḥram], ʻām 1200 [lil-Hijrah = November/December 1785]."

العنوان كما في الأعلى (وجه الورقة 1) مسبوق بـِ: "تصنيف الشيخ داوود الزمير في مدينت كمبرج ... شهر محررم [محرّم] الأحرام [الأحرم]، عام 1200 [للهجرة = تشرين الثاني )نوفمبر(/كانون الأول )ديسمبر( 1785]."

Text in Arabic, table of contents in English.

Provenance

Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.

Summary

The story of Maḥmūd al-Wardī and Ḍawʼ al-Baṣar Yāsmīn, a novel, in colloquial dialect.

Presumably author's autograph, written in Cambridge in A.H. 1200 (A.D. 1785).

Preceded by 1 leaf of notes and table of contents.

Other formats

Available on microfilm from Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Format

Archives or Manuscripts

Added to Catalog

June 01, 2002

References

Dāʼūd al-Zamīr, Ḥikāyat Maḥmūd al-Wardī wa-Ḍawʼ al-Baṣar Yāsmīn. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Cite as

Dāʼūd al-Zamīr, Ḥikāyat Maḥmūd al-Wardī wa-Ḍawʼ al-Baṣar Yāsmīn. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects

Zamīr, Dāʼūd.

زمير، داؤد.

Arabic fiction > Early works to 1800.

Arabic language > Dialects > Texts > Early works to 1800.

Subjects (Local Yale)

Arabic manuscripts.

English manuscripts.

Genre/Form

Manuscripts, Arabic - 18th century

Manuscripts, English - 18th century

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