ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS. - Lot 270

ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS. Interesting lot of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and Moral Arabic poetry. - Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry]. Commentary on AL-SHANFARA's LĀMIYYAT AL-ʿARAB. [ca. 18th-19th c]. 2 untraced leaves (21 x 15.5 cm), text of 21 lines per page, marginal notes and claims, black and red ink on laid paper (small marginal defects). Two non-consecutive leaves from an Arabic manuscript containing a commentary on al-Shanfarā's pre-Islamic poem Lāmiyyat al-ʿArab. The verses of the poem are written in red ink. The first sheet contains the commentary on verse 30, and the second sheet contains that on verse 40 on the recto, as well as verse 41 and the beginning of verse 42 on the verso. Thābit ibn Aws, known as al-Shanfarā, was a member of the Azd tribe but was marginalized and expelled. Famous as one of the Ṣaʿālīk al-ʿArab (the Arab vagabonds or brigands), 6th cent. - [Arabic moral poetry]. [S.l.], [early 20th c.] 12 ff. in-8 square (29.3 x 20.6 cm), 13 pp. n. ch., 5 and ½ pp. bl., text in blue ink in two columns, between 15 and 20 lines per page. Collection of moral verses on the on death, the vanity of pleasures, patience and piety adopting the typical form of an Arabic qaṣīda. This is an educational manuscript probably copied around the beginning of the 20th century.