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|a MS 47708 |2 SOAS manuscript number |
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|a MS 47708a |2 SOAS manuscript number |
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|a UkLSOA |c UkLSOA |
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|a Collection of Swahili Verses (MS 47708a) |h [electronic resource]. |
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|c 1913 AD (1331 A.H.). |
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|a Hichens Collection :. |
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|a Biographical information: Muhammad Kijumwa was born circa 1855 in Lamu. He was a poet, scribe, peformer calligrapher, carpenter, tailor and sculptor who taught his son, Helewa, the craft of decorative woodcarving. He assisted many Eurpoean scholars of Swahili literature, including William Taylor, Alice Werner, Carl Meinhof, H.E. Lambert, William Hichens, Ernst Dammann and John Williamson, and was a well-known character in Lamu. |
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|a Date of Composition is unknown |
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|a Languages: Swahili (Arabic script) |
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|a Dialects: Northern |
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|a Poetic Form: Shairi |
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|a Extent: 1 vol. |
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|a Incipit: Vumiza pembe ya fili na ya jamsi [jamusi] na tasa |
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|a Partial transliteration of this manuscript may be found in SOAS University of London manuscript MS 210012 |
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|a VIAF (name authority) : Kijuma, Muhammad : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/43775563 |
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|a Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Lamu -- Lamu Island |
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|a Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Tanzania -- Manyara Region -- Siu District |
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|a Donated by Mrs E. Hichens, 1 June 1945 |
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|a Scribe: Kijuma, Muhammad |
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|a [cc by-nc-sa] This item is licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. |
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|a This manuscript contains a succession of poems on the same basic theme. A note at its end, by William Hichens, states that it was scribed in August 1913 by Muhammad Kijumwa from a manuscript held by ‘Mzee Mahadhoo, who had borrowed the book from its owner, a woman from Siu. That book Mzee did not return to the woman, who sued him for it.’ Hichens comments on the eventual ownership of the original and the existence of Other copies. He calls the manuscript ‘Marriage Dance and Other Songs, composed about 1700-1800.’ Unlike many manuscripts scribed by Muhammad Kijumwa, this one contains no explanatory notes. The phrase ‘kala akhar’ (meaning ‘amesema mtu mwingine,’ another person said) generally separates one poem from the next, and sometimes the name of an author accompanies a poem. The poems appear to have been composed upon a single occasion, such as a wedding, during which festivities each composer took a turn at presenting a celebratory song. An interesting similarity among these poems, and one that suggests an occasion such as a wedding, is opening lines referring to beating a drum or blowing a horn - to making festive noise of one kind or another. A composition by Muhammad Kijumwa appear last in the volume. The first 14 pages of this manuscript are transliterated, with significant errors, in MS 210012 in the Werner collection. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS University of London, |c Archives and Special Collections, |d 2016. |f (SOAS Digital Collections) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a Archives and Special Collections. |
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|a Swahili poetry. |
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|a Marriage. |
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|a Oral tradition in literature. |
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|a Kiswahili mashairi. |
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|a Poem. |
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|a Shairi. |
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|a Poetry |2 LCTGM |
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|a Shayari. |
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|a Kijuma, Muhammad, |e author, primary. |
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|a Kijuma, Muhammad. |4 ctb |
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|a Kenya |b Lamu County |d Lamu |g Lamu Island. |
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|a SOAS Digital Collections. |
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|a African Collections. |
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|a Swahili Manuscripts Collections. |
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|a Kenya Collection. |
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|a Bantu Collections. |
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|a William Hichens Collection. |
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|a GBR |b SDC |c African Collections |
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|u http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000180/00001 |y Electronic Resource |
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|a http://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LS/MD/00/01/80/00001/00007thm.jpg |
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|a African Collections |
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