DIWAN KHOURY NIQULAWUS AL-SAYEGH (POEMS OF AL-SAYEGH) Mount Lebanon, dated...
DIWAN KHOURY NIQULAWUS AL-SAYEGH (POEMS OF AL-SAYEGH)
COPIED BY JIBR'AIL KABABAH AL-SURYANI
Mount Lebanon, dated 18 August 1837
A complete, finely preserved manuscript of the diwan of Father Niqulawus Al-Sayegh (1692-1756), composed of 321 pages, 18 lines to the page, written in neat Christian Arabic naskh script in black ink, section headings, poem titles, and page mumbering ribricated in red ink, the diwan is arranged alphabetically by rhyme end-letter from alif to ya (A to Z), with historical mis-pagination in red ink; the colophon on the final page reads: 'qad tamma naskh al-diwan... bu-yad al-da'if al-fani Jibra'il Kababah al-Suryani - the copying of this diwan was completed... by the hand of the humble Jibra'il Kababah al-Suryani, dated 18 August 1837'; with contemporary Levantine monastic binding, exhibiting the distinct, rustic blind-tooled style typical of mid 19th century workshops in Choueirite and Melkite monastic tradition of Mount Lebanon.
21.5cm x 15cm
Father Niqulawus al-Sayegh (1692–1756), was the Superior General of the Basilian Chouerite Monastery of Saint John the Baptist (Dayr Mar Yuhanna al-Shuwayr) in Mount Lebanon. Al-Sayegh is widely celebrated as one of the foremost Levantine Christian Arabic poets of the 18th century, credited with bridging classical Arabic poetic traditions and religious imagery prior to the 19th-century Arab Renaissance (Nahda).
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DIWAN KHOURY NIQULAWUS AL-SAYEGH (POEMS OF AL-SAYEGH)
COPIED BY JIBR'AIL KABABAH AL-SURYANI
Mount Lebanon, dated 18 August 1837
A complete, finely preserved manuscript of the diwan of Father Niqulawus Al-Sayegh (1692-1756), composed of 321 pages, 18 lines to the page, written in neat Christian Arabic naskh script in black ink, section headings, poem titles, and page mumbering ribricated in red ink, the diwan is arranged alphabetically by rhyme end-letter from alif to ya (A to Z), with historical mis-pagination in red ink; the colophon on the final page reads: 'qad tamma naskh al-diwan... bu-yad al-da'if al-fani Jibra'il Kababah al-Suryani - the copying of this diwan was completed... by the hand of the humble Jibra'il Kababah al-Suryani, dated 18 August 1837'; with contemporary Levantine monastic binding, exhibiting the distinct, rustic blind-tooled style typical of mid 19th century workshops in Choueirite and Melkite monastic tradition of Mount Lebanon.
21.5cm x 15cm
Father Niqulawus al-Sayegh (1692–1756), was the Superior General of the Basilian Chouerite Monastery of Saint John the Baptist (Dayr Mar Yuhanna al-Shuwayr) in Mount Lebanon. Al-Sayegh is widely celebrated as one of the foremost Levantine Christian Arabic poets of the 18th century, credited with bridging classical Arabic poetic traditions and religious imagery prior to the 19th-century Arab Renaissance (Nahda).
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From the property of a private collector.
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