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Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Institution

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi

Collection

Laleli

Shelfmark

1983

Contents

Work 3: Sharḥ al-Mukhtaṣar fi ‘ilm al-‘arūḍ (Qayṣarī, ʻAbd al-Muḥsin)

LOC subject headings

Arabic languageVersification (Early works to 1800)

Author

Qayṣarī, ʻAbd al-Muḥsin

محسن القيصري

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Muḥsin al-Qayṣarī, d. c. 761 / 1359-60

Muhsin-i Kayseri

‘Abd al-Muhsin Kayseri

عبد المحسن القيصري

Qayṣarī, ʻAbd al-Muḥsin (authorised)

ʻAbd al-Muḥsin al-Qayṣarī (variant)

Biographical notes

Born in Kayseri (Turkey), Muhsin-i Kayseri is said to have been educated in Syria and Egypt. Little is known of his life, but he is presumed to have mainly lived subsequently in Kayseri (Turkey).

Title

Sharḥ al-Mukhtaṣar fi ‘ilm al-‘arūḍ

شرح المختصر في علم العروض

Notes

This is a popular commentary on a work on prosody by Abu ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Abū al-Jaysh al-Andalusī, d. 626/1229.

Probable place of composition: Kayseri (Turkey) under the patronage of Suleyman Beg b. al-amir al-a’zam, al-wazir al-akram… Falak al-Dawla wa’l-Din Ṭāshḥūn Beg سليمان بك بن الامير الاعظم الوزير الاكرم ...فلك الدين طاشحون بك

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

39-68

Bibliography

Editions

Qayṣarī, ʻAbd al-Muḥsin;. Sharḥ al-Mukhtaṣar fi ‘ilm al-‘arūḍ. Istanbul: Ibrahim Efendi matbaası, 1308.

Studies

Cici, Recep. "Muhsin-i Kayseri." TDVİA. XXXI, [n.d.]: 48-48.

Cici, Recep. "XVI [sic] yüzyılda Kayserili bir fakih: Abdulmuhsin Kayseri ve Çalışmaları." Kayseri: 1996: 95-107.

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Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 5282

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 982

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 1863

Physical Description

Number of folios

xx ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 14.3cm, height 20.8cm

Dimensions of written area

width 6.5cm, height 14.5cm

Columns

1

Ruled lines

19

History

Date of copy

20th. century