A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Saphia
SAPHIA, a Moorish Spaniard of Seville,
Distinguished for her oratorical and poetical powers, was so much skilled in the art of penmanship that she was at the same time the admiration and example to writers. She died, aged thirty years, at the expiration of the 417th year of the Hegira. An epigram of hers on the art of good writing, is preserved in the library of the Escurial.
Bibliothecæ Arabico–Hispanæ Escurialiensis.