Explanation of Diwan Al-Hamsa by Abu Tammam Al-Tai, 231 AH
(شرح ديوان الحماسة لأبي تمام الطائي هـ)

Name: Explanation of Diwan Al-Hamsa by Abu Tammam Al-Tai, 231 AH
Author: Al-Alam Al-Shantamari, Yusuf bin Suleiman (1084)

Title	Explanation of Diwan Al-Hamsa by Abu Tammam Al-Tai, 231 AH
Title Original	شرح ديوان الحماسة لأبي تمام الطائي هـ
Author	Al-Alam Al-Shantamari, Yusuf bin Suleiman (1084)
Author Original	الأعلم الشنتمري يوسف بن سليمان
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	163
Physical Dimensions	280 x 200 مم
Library:	National Library of Tunisia
Record ID	5743047
Library Location	A-MSS-18656
Notes	A beautifully handwritten copy, with gilded borders, and useful notes in its margins. The original is by Abu Tammam Habib bin Aws al-Tai, who died in the year 231 AH/845 AD. In it, he collected what he chose from the poetry of the Arabs, and arranged it into ten sections, which are: enthusiasm, elegies, literature, praise, hospitality and satire, attributes, walking and sleepiness, salt and exasperation, disparaging women, chapter on shortening, chapter on arrogance, and there is some difference in this with the content mentioned by Haji Khalifa. He was famous for his first chapter on enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the courage of the Arabs [see the reasons for its creation and fame, and the names of its commentators, in Kashf al-Zunun 1/591]. He arranged each chapter according to the letters of the dictionary according to the method of the Moroccans, which makes after the nūn: the ṣad and the ḍād, the ain and the ghān, the fa and the qāf, the sīn and the sīn, the ha, the waw, and the yā. A copy in an Andalusian script, graceful and shaped, clear and good, correct and readable, with a golden beginning, the fonts of the door titles are large and soft, its letters are outlined with fine black lines, and gold inside. The lines are interspersed and the footnotes are spread with explanations, most of which are written in red italics and with a precise pen. At the end of the copy, we can see traces of writing in a successive oriental script, from which we read:...from Shawwal in the year sixty-five,...Dhi Qa’dah. On the front of the copy, it contains the handwriting of Al-Baji bin Muhammad Al-Masoudi, some verses, some verses, and a trace of an annulment reading from which appears... Ali the Prophet’s student recited... and the word Seville. We do not know if this reading took place in Seville, or if it is a reference to the place where the most knowledgeable author of the book died. The copy, as it appears, is Khazaniyah, from the works of the early seventh century AH. It is similar to the copy of Al-Sahil and Al-Shahij by Al-Ma’arri, preserved in Rabat.
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Explanation of Diwan Al-Hamsa by Abu Tammam Al-Tai, 231 AH

(شرح ديوان الحماسة لأبي تمام الطائي هـ)

Author Al-Alam Al-Shantamari, Yusuf bin Suleiman (1084)

Author Original الأعلم الشنتمري يوسف بن سليمان

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 163

Physical Dimensions 280 x 200 مم

Library National Library of Tunisia

Record ID 5743047

Library Location A-MSS-18656

Notes A beautifully handwritten copy, with gilded borders, and useful notes in its margins. The original is by Abu Tammam Habib bin Aws al-Tai, who died in the year 231 AH/845 AD. In it, he collected what he chose from the poetry of the Arabs, and arranged it into ten sections, which are: enthusiasm, elegies, literature, praise, hospitality and satire, attributes, walking and sleepiness, salt and exasperation, disparaging women, chapter on shortening, chapter on arrogance, and there is some difference in this with the content mentioned by Haji Khalifa. He was famous for his first chapter on enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the courage of the Arabs [see the reasons for its creation and fame, and the names of its commentators, in Kashf al-Zunun 1/591]. He arranged each chapter according to the letters of the dictionary according to the method of the Moroccans, which makes after the nūn: the ṣad and the ḍād, the ain and the ghān, the fa and the qāf, the sīn and the sīn, the ha, the waw, and the yā. A copy in an Andalusian script, graceful and shaped, clear and good, correct and readable, with a golden beginning, the fonts of the door titles are large and soft, its letters are outlined with fine black lines, and gold inside. The lines are interspersed and the footnotes are spread with explanations, most of which are written in red italics and with a precise pen. At the end of the copy, we can see traces of writing in a successive oriental script, from which we read:...from Shawwal in the year sixty-five,...Dhi Qa’dah. On the front of the copy, it contains the handwriting of Al-Baji bin Muhammad Al-Masoudi, some verses, some verses, and a trace of an annulment reading from which appears... Ali the Prophet’s student recited... and the word Seville. We do not know if this reading took place in Seville, or if it is a reference to the place where the most knowledgeable author of the book died. The copy, as it appears, is Khazaniyah, from the works of the early seventh century AH. It is similar to the copy of Al-Sahil and Al-Shahij by Al-Ma’arri, preserved in Rabat.

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