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Notice of an unknown Anthology of Ancient Arabic Poetry, “Muntaha 'l-ṭalab min Ash'âr-i 'l-'Arab,”, by Muḥammad b. al-Mubârak b. Muḥammad b. Maimûn
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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At Oxford, in 1927, while hunting up references to the verses of an unknown anthology of ancient Arabic poetry, which I hope to present shortly to the students of Arabic, I came to find mention of another unknown anthology of Ancient Arabic poetry: Muntaha 'l-Ṭalab min Ash'dr-i 'l-'Arab by Muḥammad b. al-Mubârak b. Muhammad b. Maimûn, said to contain one thousand Arabic odes. Although the anthologist, Muḥammad b. al-Mubârak b. Muhammad b. Maimûn, was no familiar figure in Arabic literary history, the name of the anthology and the note about its enormous extent at once struck me and led me to think that it was a very valuable work. So I at once consulted the well-known expert, Mr. (now Dr.) F. Krenkow about it. Mr. Krenkow informed me that he also had come across the name of this anthology, most probably in the catalogue of the books in the late De Slane's library. Afterwards, when I visited Germany and met Dr. Hommel of Munich, he felt immensely interested in this anthology, and suggested to me to be on the look-out for it in my intended Near East tour especially in the libraries of Istanbul and Damascus. As a matter of fact, in Istanbul I came upon a codex of this work in the library of Laleli, where it is numbered 1941. But this codex, 2·1 cm. × 1·5 cm., containing 164 folios, was only a small part—one-sixth—of the whole work. Again in Cairo I found two manuscripts of the Muntaha 'l-Ṭalab in the Royal library.
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Page 433 note 1 Khizânat-u 'l-Adab, vol. i, pp. 10, 366, 448, and 405; and vol. iv, p. 233.
Page 433 note 2 Ibid., vol. ii, pp. 421, 467; vol. iii, p. 164; and vol. iv, pp. 40, 373.
Page 433 note 3 Ibid., vol. i, p. 10.
Page 436 note 1 Folio 80r.
Page 436 note 2 Folio 150r.
Page 436 note 3 Folio 51r.
Page 436 note 4 Folio 67v.
Page 436 note 5 Folio 119v.
Page 437 note 1 Folios 248–256.
Page 437 note 2 Folios 258–270.
Page 437 note 3 Folios 272–291.
Page 437 note 4 Folios 292–318.
Page 437 note 5 Folio 347v.
Page 437 note 6 Khizânat-u '1-Adab, i, 463, ii, 467, and iv, 40.
Page 437 note 7 Ibid., i, 448 and 463.
Page 437 note 8 Ibid., iii, 164.
Page 437 note 9 Ibid., iv, 373.
Page 437 note 10 Ibid., i, 366.
Page 437 note 11 Ibid., iv, 255.
Page 437 note 12 Ibid., ii, 421.
Page 438 note 1 Zaidân, J., Târikh-u Âdab-i 'l-Lughat-i 'l-'Arabīyah, vol. iii, 288Google Scholar.
Page 438 note 2 Vol. vii, p. 112.
Page 439 note 1 Suyûṭi, Bughyát-u 'l-Wu'ât.
Page 439 note 2 Vol. i, p. 217, and vol. vii, pp. 209, 286, and 289.
Page 439 note 3 Folio 47r.
Page 439 note 4 Folio 129r.
Page 440 note 1 Mufaḍḍaliydt, ed. Sir Charles Lyall, Nos. ix, xviii, xxi, xxii, xxiv, xxv, xxx, xliv, xovi–xcix, and cxxiv.
Page 440 note 2 Ibid., Nos. v, vi, x, xv, xvii, xxvii–xxix, xxxi, xxxiv–xxxvi, xli, xlii, xlvii, lxvii, lxxvi, lxxxix, xci, and cv.
Page 440 note 3 Ibid., Nos. i and xx.
Page 441 note 1 Kuthaiyir's Dîwân. with the commentary of Abu 'Abdullāh al-Rashîdî, is known to exist in a manuscript of the Escurial library.
Page 442 note 2 For example, out of the thirteen poems by 'Abîd b. al-Abraṣ five will not be found in the Poet's Dîwân, edited by Sir Charles Lyall.