Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr : manuscript
نزهة العمر في التفضيل بين البيض والسود والسمر : مخطوطة
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2012484
Description
- Title
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Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr : manuscript
نزهة العمر في التفضيل بين البيض والسود والسمر : مخطوطة - Alternative Title
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Kitāb Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr
كتاب نزهة العمر في التفضيل بين البيض والسود والسمر - Creator
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Suyūṭī, 1445-1505, author
سيوطي، 1445-1505, author - Published / Created
- [1800?]
- Publication Place
- Place not identified
- Abstract
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Manuscript, on paper, containing al-Suyūṭī's Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr, an anthology of poetical extracts on the relative charm of white, black, and "ruddy" women
- Description
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In Arabic.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh, wa-salāmun ʻalá ʻibādihi alladhīn iṣṭafá. Wa-baʻd, fa-qad allafa jamāʻah min al-udabāʼ fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd, fa-allafa Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn al-Hirzibān Kitāb al-Sūdān wa-faḍḍalahum ʻalá al-bīḍān, wa-lā astakthiru hādhā ʻalayhi, fa-innahu allafa Kitāb Tafḍīl al-kilāb ʻalá kathīrin mimman labisa al-thiyāb, fa-idhā faḍḍala al-kilāb ʻalá banī Ādam lam yakthur ʻalayhi an yufaḍḍila al-sūdān ʻalá al-bīḍān ..."
Available on microfilm
Script: Fair modern (ca. 1800) naskhī, in red and black.
Binding: In paper covered cardboard, Type III (without flap); green leather on spine.
Decoration: Rubricated.
On folio 1a: "Kitāb Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr, lil-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá, wa-nafaʻanā bi-hi fī al-dunyā wa-al-ākhirah. Āmīn." To the left (in a different hand): "Wa-yalīhi 'al-Akhbār al-maʼthūrah fī al-iṭṭilāʼ bi-al-nūrah'. Wa-yalīhi 'Bulūgh al-maʼārib fī qaṣṣ al-shārib'. al-Jamīʻ lil-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī."
With: 2 other titles by al-Suyūṭī: 1. al-Akhbār al-maʼthūrah fī al-iṭṭilāʼ bi-al-nūrah. 2. Bulūgh al-maʼārib fī qaṣṣ al-shārib.
Colophon: "Tamma Kitāb Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr, wa-al-ḥamd lillāh waḥdah. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi, wa-sallama taslīman kathīran sarmadā." - Provenance
- Sparse marginalia.
- Extent
- 1 volume (leaves 1-17) ; 16 x 11 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Arabic
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Landberg MSS 273
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Poetry
Annotations
Manuscripts, Arabic 19th century - Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Topic)
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Race relations
Race
Race in literature
Arabic poetry
History and criticism - Subjects
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Race relations > Poetry
Race > Poetry
Race in literature
Arabic poetry > History and criticism
19th century
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- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Suyūṭī, Nuzhat al-ʻumr fī al-tafḍīl bayna al-bīḍ wa-al-sūd wa-al-sumr. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 3814294
- Object ID (OID)
- 2012484
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