Note 445 — Terminal Essay. (continued 4)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Al-Siyuti, p. 235, from Ibn Khallikan. Our knowledge of oldest Arab verse is drawn chiefly from the Kitáb al-Aghání (Song-book) of Abu al-Faraj the Isfaháni who flourished A.H. 284–356 (= 897–967): it was printed at the Butak Press in 1868.