Notes in Arabic relating to a Gipsy woman called "Al-ṣāniʻa"

Object identifier ARC_404
Tipologia Item
Data cronica
ante 1950

Titles

Title
Šāḫ Ḥasan al’Alātī
Type
formal title
Title
Notes in Arabic relating to a Gipsy woman called "Al-ṣāniʻa"
Type
supplied title

Description

A number of pages containing various manuscript notes in Arabic relating to the figure of al-ṣāniʻa. In the article, “A Gypsy Woman in Egypt in the Thirteenth Century, A.D.”, Kahle edited the transcription and the English translation of a zaǧal taken from Ibn Dāniyāl’s «Ṭayf al-Ḫayāl» recited by a Gypsy woman called al-ṣāniʻa, i.e. “the woman who performs something”.

Publication notes

Publication notes
Paul Kahle, “A Gypsy Woman in Egypt in the Thirteenth Century, A.D.”, in: «Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society», 29 (1950), pp. 11-15.

Languages

Arabic

Medium

paper

Archivistic typology and Extent

Extent
1
Archivistic typology
leaf/leaves

Dimensions in mm

Height
330
Width
210

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