Utenzi wa Miqdadi (MS 380370a)
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Title:
Utenzi wa Miqdadi (MS 380370a)
Series Title:
Knappert Collection :
Creator:
Buhriy, Hemedi bin Abdallah ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:
Language:
Swahili
Materials:
Paper ( medium )
Technique:
Handwritten manuscript : In black type on thin paper

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Islam ( LCSH )
Legends ( LCSH )
Religious history
Swahili poetry ( LCSH )
Uislamu
Kiswahili mashairi
History -- Religious aspects ( LCSH )
Islam -- History ( LCSH )
Genre:
Poem
Utenzi
Poetry ( LCTGM )
Spatial Coverage:
Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
Coordinates:
-9.633997 x 39.778998

Notes

Abstract:
This manuscript version of the Utenzi wa Miqdadi contains many errors. Although we probably cannot be certain that this is the exact manuscript that Allen (1971) refers to as ‘H,’ many of its errors do seem (as Allen suggests for ‘H’) to be attributable to the typist. Most notably, the rhymes become confused from stanza 487 until the end. In this portion of the poem, the typist seems to have misarranged the stanzas; lines that would rightly be third become first, and the first lines of stanzas become third, so that what would be the final ‘a’ rhyme of each stanza occurs in the second line. Although most of the poem’s narrative is essentially the same as Allen (1979), its lexical content differs significantly from that version, making comparison interesting. ( en )
General Note:
Date of Composition is unknown
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Languages: Swahili (Arabic script)
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Poetic Form: Utenzi
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Extent: 82 leaves (818 stanzas)
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Incipit: Bisimillahi mbuyaza, awali yakujifunza, sijui vitanitanza, au vitanichachiya
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See also SOAS University of London manuscript MS 255733b
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Archival history: A note in the manuscript identifies it as a copy made for Jan Knappert of a typescript that was found in the papers of Mbarak Ali Hinawy. It also says that Allen used the manuscript ‘as a text for his publication,’ presumably Allen (1971).
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VIAF (name authority) : Buhriy, Hemedi bin Abdallah : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/149191397
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Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
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Purchased from Dr. J. Knappert, July 1983
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Publication information: Allen, J.W.T. 1971. Tendi. London: Heinemann Educational, pp. 269-369.
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Publication information: Knappert, Jan (ed). 1964. Utenzi wa Mikidadi bin Alasuadi na Mayasa Mkewe (Mombasa version), ed by Jan Knappert. Kiswahili 34 (1): 120-29.
General Note:
Publication information: Werner, Alice. 1932. The story of Miqdad and Mayasa: from the Swahili-Arabic text . Medstead, Hampshire: Azania Press.
General Note:
Werner, Alice. 1930. The Story of Miqdad and Mayasa. Afrika und Ubersee, 21:1-24

Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Rights Management:
This item may be in the public domain. Its status has yet to be assessed.
Resource Identifier:
MS 380370 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 380370a ( SOAS manuscript number )