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The fragment contains verses of a famous Arabic qasida (long poem in monorhyme) by Dhū l-Rummah, with commentary (sharḥ) by an unknown author.

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Ms.Heb.8333.192
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Silver (given following internal peer review)
Arabic (Arabic script)
Literary text

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Top half missing. Holes caused by ink corrosion.

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  • https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/article/document-month-625-she-smells-fragrant-nose

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IEDC Data

1284
30/06/2025
06/10/2025

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Geert Jan van Gelder
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 إذا أخو لَذَّةِ الدُّنْيا تَبَطَّنَها         والبيْتُ فَوْقَهُما باللَّيْلِ محتجِبُ   4
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سافَتْ بِطَيِّبةِ العِرْنِينِ مارِنُها    بالمِسْكِ والعَنْبَرِ الهِنْديّ مختضِبُ   8
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قوله لا أحسبُ الدهر يُبلي جدّة أبدًا يقول لم [أكن أحسب]  1
أن يكونَ بالإنسان هَرمٌ ولا بالثوبِ اخلاق كنت أرى [أن]  2
كلّ شي جديدٌ من غرتي ولم أحسب شَعبا تاتي شعبا فتفرقه  3
وكل هـ...... الشعب والشُعب هو قبائل هاهنا  4
ومعنى هذا الكلام أن قوما كانوا مجتـ[ـمعين في] مكان واحِد  5
وكان آ[خر زمن؟] في مواضع شتى فتحول الجمعُ الأول وهو  6
الشعب ...... و[قـ]ـطعة الى ...  وقط[ـعة] الى ... الذين  7
هم بمواضع شتى فهم الذين تقسموا هذا الشعب ...  8
وهذا ..... بعد نفذ .... قطعة الى ... حلوان وقطعة  9
الى البصرة وقطعة الى الكوفة فتلك الشعوب ...  10
هذا الشعَبُ الذين ببغداد ... او الذي انا فيه باق  11
... وقال بعضهُم الشعب الواحد ... فقسمهم  12
... صاروا شُعبَا  13
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4  When a man familiar with this world’s delight lies belly-to-belly with her,                              and the tent above the two is veiled by the night, 
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8 She smells with a fragrant nose, the soft tip of which                        is tinged with musk and Indian ambergris. 
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