The Book of Aroodh
Description
This manuscript, by an unknown author, is an incomplete
work that endeavors to apply Arabic poetry metrics to Ottoman Turkish poems. It
starts with the seas (or metrics) of al-mutaqarib, ar-ramal,
and al-munsarih. The transcription is possibly from the 17th century. The
manuscript is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the
University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO
Memory of the World register in 1997. Safvet beg Bašagić (1870-1934) was a
Bosnian scholar, poet, journalist, and museum director who assembled a
collection of 284 manuscript volumes and 365 print volumes that reflect the
development of Islamic civilization from its inception to the early 20th
century. The manuscript is item 463 in Jozef Blaškovič, Arabské, turecké a
perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave (Arab, Turkish, and
Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava).
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23 folios ; 23.5 x 15 centimeters ; black and red ink ; leather hardcover
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Last updated: May 24, 2017