{"product_id":"the-seven-pre-islamic-odes-in-a-cairo-lithographic-edition","title":"Al-Zawzanī’s commentary on the seven pre-Islamic odes, lithographed in Cairo","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Zawzanī (d. 1093)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSharḥ al-muʿallaqāt al-sabʿa\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Cairo]: Maṭbaʿat al-Ḥajar al-Bāhira, Rabīʿ al-ākhir 1277 AH [1860].\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePagination to 187. Arabic lithographic text with commentary in the margins. Decorated title-page incorporating a short biographical notice; concluding table of the seven odes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatterned paper-covered boards with a brown spine strip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCircular ink stamps and pencil markings on the title-page, not securely attributed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAl-Zawzanī’s commentary joins the celebrated pre-Islamic odes to the philological learning needed to study their language. This Egyptian edition brings early Arabic poetry and medieval scholarship into Cairo’s nineteenth-century book trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Maṭbaʿat al-Ḥajar al-Bāhira was a lithographic workshop. Project Naggari identifies the press’s manager for this edition as Maḥmūd Efendi, a Maltese member of the stationers’ trade in Khān al-Khalīlī. The same record names Naṣr Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Hūrīnī as corrector and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān as the commissioning party. These credits locate its production among the craftspeople, scholars and financiers of Cairo’s commercial book district.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLithography allowed the workshop to reproduce flowing Arabic script and marginal commentary together, retaining the visual organisation of a manuscript. The decorated title-page includes a biographical notice; the concluding opening supplies a table of the seven odes and corrections discovered after printing. The book thus preserves both the calligraphic skills of lithographic production and the continuing labour of textual correction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCondition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpine strip worn. Extensive rubbing and losses to the covering paper expose the boards; corners worn and rounded. Pronounced vertical cracking at the front of the binding, with strained or split inner hinges. Browning, spotting, folded corners and minor marginal chips. The final contents leaf has a long closed horizontal tear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eReferences\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eÖzel, Ahmet. “Zevzenî, Hüseyin b. Ahmed.” TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 44, 2013, pp. 312–13. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/islamansiklopedisi.org.tr\/zevzeni-huseyin-b-ahmed\"\u003eSource\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProject Naggari. “Printed Books.” The Literary World of a Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Sheikh, entry n1t54. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/projectnaggari.github.io\/pages\/printedbooks.html\"\u003eSource\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtem reference: 207.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55376484237655,"sku":"207","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/207_20261005_131803_vrijstaand_rev2.png?v=1791946547","url":"https:\/\/artemrarebooks.com\/products\/the-seven-pre-islamic-odes-in-a-cairo-lithographic-edition","provider":"Artem Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}