Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Devotional poetry, Arabic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 43H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Leather doublures (Binding) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Summary note

Poem in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 24a [prev. 25a]).
• The name of the author does not appear in the ms.
• On fol. (i)b-1a and 24b : scribal exercice. Ex libris of Robert Garrett on the doublure of the upper cover, with on the opposite gold-sprinkled green fly-leaf pasted on fol. (i) the mention: "Put in by mistake".
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 24 + i ; 1-3⁸ ; catchwords on the verso of each leaf, often cut off by the trimming of the pages ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 7 lines per page.
• Decoration: The text is divided in five panels with alternate thuluth written in gold and naskh in black ink, and fully vocalized. On the left and right sides of the naskh there is a panel decorated with a gilt and colored floral motif. The text is framed within gold, black and blue fillets. Elaborate illuminated headpiece of gold, blue, red, orange and white on fol. 1b.
• Incipit: بسم ... امن تذكر جيران بذي سلم مزجت دمعا جرى من مقلة بدم
• Explicit: ما رخّت عذبات البان ريح صباً واطرب العيس حادى العيس بالنعم

Binding note

Upper and lower covers made of dark brown leather over pasteboards, with trace of a missing envelope flap. The covers are similarly decorated with a central gold stamped medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis and triangular corner pieces sunk in the leather, framed within a gold guilloche roll border defined by fillets. The upper cover is damaged. The edges have been repaired. The red leather doublure has a central gold and black stamped mandorla with short radiating gold painted sprigs and an outer frame made of golden filets and a guilloche roll. In his description, Hitti mentions an envelope flap which is now missing.

Provenance

Ownership statement dated 1237 H. [1821] in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn al-marḥūm al-sayyid Ṣāliḥ al-Mashhadānī al-Bandārī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 61

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

قصيدة البردة

Title given by P. Hitti, Garrett coll

• Qaṣīdat al-Burdah

OCLC

67618255

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