Shihab al-Din Ahmad bin Muhammad bin 'Umar al-Khafaji al-Misri (d. Cairo 1658), Khabaya al-zawaya fi ma fi al-rijal min al-baqaya, an anthology written in prose and verse, comprising the biographies of poets, the text arranged in five sections: the...

Shihab al-Din Ahmad bin Muhammad bin 'Umar al-Khafaji al-Misri (d. Cairo 1658), Khabaya al-zawaya fi ma fi al-rijal min al-baqaya, an anthology written in prose and verse, comprising the biographies of poets, the text arranged in five sections: the poets of al-Sham, al-Hijaz, Egypt, al-Maghribi and al-Rum
Ottoman, probably copied in Aleppo, Syria, mid-17th Century
Arabic manuscript on gold- and silver-sprinkled coloured paper, with European watermarks, 122 leaves, 21 lines to the page written in elegant nasta'liq script in black ink, text interspersed with red verse-markers, titles written in red in naskhi script, catchwords in wide outer margins, brown morocco gilt, edges frayed, worn, corners of lower cover damaged, missing flap, corner of first folio damaged not affecting text, index listing all the poets included in the anthology
200 x 125 mm.