Formed by long sheets of paper featuring hieroglyphic-like characters written in ink by Caruso over existing teletyped text.
Description:
Luciano Caruso (1944-2002) was an Italian experimental poet, editor, and art critic based in Naples until 1976 and in Florence thereafter. He was a prominent practitioner of Italian visual poetry ("poesia visiva").
Subject (Name):
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
Subject (Topic):
Experimental poetry, Italian--20th century, Poets, Italian--20th century, and Visual poetry, Italian--20th century
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Masʻūd, Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī, active 1876. مسعود، مسعود بن السيد حجازي، ناشط 1876.
Published / Created:
1876
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 614
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Collection of Arabic poetry and prose from different eras, different places and different authors, covering some fifty subjects. Compiled by Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī Masʻūd (al-Jirjāwī baladan, al-Ḥusaynī maḥtidan), on 1 Muḥarram, 1293 Hijrī (28 January, 1876). No reference could be found for the book or its compiler, probably the author's autograph.
Alternative Title:
Kitāb al-ʻUyūn al-sawāhir fī rawḍat al-zawāhir, ʻUyūn al-sawāhir, العيون السواهر في روضة الزواهر : مخطوطة / مسعود بن السيد حجازي مسعود., عيون السواهر, and كتاب العيون السواهر في روضة الزواهر
Description:
15.5 x 22.5 cm; written surface: 10.5 x 18; 25 lines per page., Binding: In modern red cloth binding with leather spine., Colophon: "Yaqūlu jāmiʻuhu min shāsiʻ al-aqṭār baʻda taṣfiyatihi min daran al-akdār afqar al-ʻibād ilá rabbihi al-maʻbūd, Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī Masʻūd, al-Jirjāwī baladan, al-Ḥusaynī maḥtidan: Laqad tamma nasj burd hādhā al-kitāb ʻalá minwāl al-kamāl al-mustaṭāb fī Muḥarram al-ḥarām, iftitāḥ sanat 1293, thalāthah wa-tisʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf min Hijrat man kāna yará min al-amām ka-mā kāna yará min al-khalf, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam wa-sharrafa wa-karrama wa-ʻaẓam wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-ghurar mā badrun badar wa-najmun ẓahar.", In clear naskh/ruqʻah script, in brown ink, on white paper; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī manna ʻalaynā bi-nayl al-maṭlūb wa-jaʻalanā nanṭuqu fīmā nuʻānī wa-jaʻala bi-dhikrihi taṭmaʼinnu al-qulūb, wa-in kāna yuṭribuhā dhikr al-aghānī ...", On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb al-ʻUyūn al-sawāhir fī rawḍat al-zawāhir li-jāmiʻihi min shāsiʻ al-aqṭār baʻda taṣfiyatihi min daran al-akdār afqar al-ʻibād ilá rabbihi al-maʻbūd Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī Masʻūd, ghafara Allāh dhunūbah wa-satara ʻuyūbah. M.", On spine in printed gold color: "al-ʻUyūn al-sawāhir. Masʻūd Ḥijāzī.", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: fa-man kāna mithlī mudhniban., Text folios: 1a-150a., Title from folio 1a., Translation of the colophon: "The compiler, Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī Masʻūd (al-Jirjāwī baladan, al-Ḥusaynī maḥtidan) says: The materials for this book were collected from vast places, after cleansing them of impurities. I have endeavored to compose it in the most perfect way. It was completed at the beginning of Muḥarram, the year 1293 of the Hijrah of the Prophet [28 January, 1876] ...", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي منّ علينا بنيل المطلوب وجعلنا ننطق فيما نعاني وجعل بذكره تطمئن القلوب، وإن كان يطربها ذكر الأغاني ...", الخاتمة: "يقول جامعه من شاسع الأقطار بعد تصفيته من درن الأكدار أفقر العباد إلى ربه المعبود، مسعود بن السيد حجازي مسعود، الجرجاوي بلدًا، الحسيني محتدًا: لقد تم نسج برد هذا الكتاب على منوال الكمال المستطاب في محرم الحرام، افتتاح سنة 1293، ثلاثة وتسعين ومائتين وألف من هجرة من كان يرى من الأمام كما كان يرى من الخلف، صلى الله عليه وسلم وشرف وكرم وعظم وعلى آله و'صحابه الغرر ما بدرٌ بدر ونجمٌ ظهر.", بداية الورقة الثانية: فمن كان مثلي مذنبًا., على ظهر المخطوط بطباعة مذهبة: "العيون السواهر. مسعود حجازي.", and على وجه الورقة 1: "هذا كتاب العيون السواهر في روضة الزواهر لجامعه من شاسع الأقطار بعد تصفيته من درن الأكدار أفقر العباد إلى ربه المعبود مسعود بن السيد حجازي مسعود، غفر الله ذنوبة وستر عيوبة. م."
Subject (Name):
Masʻūd, Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī,--active 1876. and مسعود، مسعود بن السيد حجازي،--ناشط 1876.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic literature., Arabic manuscripts., and Arabic poetry.