Lot 180: The Third Part of the Seven Caravan Collection...
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The Third Part of the Seven Caravan Collection of Selected Poems, Copied 1009 AH (1600–1601 CE), Damascus.
An Arabic poetic manuscript comprising the third part of the Seven Caravan Collection of Selected Poems (al-Majmūʿah al-Sabʿiyyah), compiled by the poet Ḥassan bin Muḥammad al-Ṣafūrī.
This copy was written by Aḥmad bin Aḥmad bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAnāyātī al-Mābulusī in the year 1009 AH (1600–1601 CE) in the city of Damascus, as recorded in the manuscript. The volume represents an early 17th-century Damascene example of literary transmission and scribal culture.
The manuscript is bound in light brown leather with simple ruled border lines. The text is written in a clear naskh hand in black ink, with headings, section divisions, and key phrases rubricated in red. The layout follows a traditional two-page poetic format, with verses arranged in measured lines and red bullet points marking structural divisions.
Approximately 21.7 x 16cm
Provenance: Private collection from a distinguished W London collector.
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