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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000192/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Swahili Notes and Glosses (MS 47796a)
- Series Title:
- Hichens Collection :
- Creator:
- Kijuma, Muhammad ( Author, Primary )
Kijuma, Muhammad ( contributor )
- Publication Date:
- 1935 AD (1354 A.H.)
- Language:
- Swahili
- Materials:
- Paper ( medium )
- Technique:
- Handwritten manuscript : In red and brown bound volume labelled ‘Swahili Papers’; written in black ink, pencil and red ink
Notes
- Abstract:
- This volume contains materials that were prepared c. 1935 by Muhammad Kijumwa, in response to questions and requests from William Hichens. It begins with a letter in which Kijumwa discusses various poems and refers to a request for information on his life; to provide Hichens with that, writes Kijumwa, would be ‘udhia na kazi kubwa.’ Kijumwa thanks Hichens for payment and for a gift and sends greeting to Alice Werner, whom he calls Binti Yusufu. The next page of the volume, headed with illustrations of animals, contains explanations of words in Al-Inkishafi and discussion of acrostic poems. After this is an extensive gloss of the poem Wajiwaji. Then comes a page on Utenzi wa Ayubu that also contains verses from the Qur’an (on slander against Aisha) with an imprecise Swahili translation. Further quotation and notes related to Aisha are contained on the reverse page. Notes on Utenzi wa Miiraji follow; then a list of Kingovi vocabulary, with Roman transliteration of that list; and then fragmentary notes on the meaning of ‘sirat’ and on Utenzi wa Barasisi. ( en )
- General Note:
- 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.
- General Note:
- Date of Composition: 1935 AD (1354 A.H.)
- General Note:
- Languages: Swahili (Arabic script)
- General Note:
- Extent: 1 vol.
- General Note:
- Incipit: Illa janabi sayyid l-ajalli l-akrami l-mukarrami l-wafi Bwana Hichnes, sallamau llahu taalaa
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Kijuma, Muhammad : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/43775563
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Kenya -- Lamu County -- Lamu -- Lamu Island
- General Note:
- Donated by Mrs E. Hichens, 22 June 1945
- General Note:
- Scribe: Kijuma, Muhammad
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- This item is believed to be in the public domain
- Resource Identifier:
- MS 47796 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 47796a ( SOAS manuscript number )
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