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Subject(s)

• Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd 1213?-1296?—Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah [Browse]
• بوصيري، شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد—همزية في مدح خير البرية [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Devotional literature—15th century [Browse]
• Devotional poetry, Arabic—History—15th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Devotional literature [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Qaṣīdah al-hamzīyah, a poem in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad also known as Umm al-qurá, by Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Būṣīrī (d. 694/1294).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 99a). The name of the author appears in full at the end of the text (fol. 98b).
• Physical description: 26 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Commented text in red. Thick European apper with watermark; glossy. Collation notes on the margin. Verses of poetry on fol. 1a, some attributed to Abū al-ʻAlā al-Maʻarrī. Majority of quinions.
• Collation: Paper, fol. i, 99 ; i (later added fly-leaf) 1¹⁰ (-1 at beginning of quire) 2-10¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "al-ʻUlūm al-...(?) 53". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 351". Inscription in Arabic script on fol. 1a: "Numrah 221".
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻUmar ibn al-shaykh ʻUmar ibn al-shaykh Abī Bakr ibn al-shaykh ʻUmar ibn al-shaykh Sulaymān al-MNBJī al-ʻAdawī al-Shāfiʻī, Saturday end of Rajab 1069 [April 1659] (fol. 99a).
• Copyist: ʻUmar ibn ʻUmar ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʻUmar ibn Sulaymān al-MNBJī al-ʻAdawī al-Shāfiʻī.
• Incipit: بسم ... وصلى الله على نبيه العظيم وسلم الحمد لله الذى خص محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم بعموم الارسال وميزه على غيره من المخلوقات بكمال الشرف وشرف الكمال ... [3أ] ... قال رحمه الله بسم ... ص كيف ترقى رقيك الانبياء يا سماء ما طاولتها سماء ش اللغة كيف اسم مبنى على الفتح

Binding note

Red brown leather over paper pasteboards for covers and flap. The covers have a central blind stamped scalloped mandorla filled with a floral pattern and an outer border consisting of fillets. Smaller stamp on the pointe of the envelope flap. Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Ownership statement in the name of Muḥammad Nūr al-Dīn, known as Nūḥādī Zādah on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 4156
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 266 (II. Cmtare 2) ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• هذه القصيدة في مدح النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم للامام البوصيري رحمه الله تعالى رحمة واسعة امين
• قصيده همزية
• شرح المولى الشيخ محمد بن عبد المنعم بن محمد الجوجري على القصيدة الهمزية في المدائح النبوية

Title from title page (fol. 1a, in gold)

• Hādhihi al-qaṣīdah fī madḥ al-Nabī ṣallá Allāhu ʻalayhi wa-sallama lil-Imām al-Būṣīrī raḥimahu Allāhu taʻālá raḥmatan wāsiʻatan amīn

Title from heading in gold on fol. 1b

• Qaṣīdah-i Hamziyah

Title from inscription on fol. 1a (same hand as the ownership statement by Nūḥādī Zādah)

• Sharḥ al-mawlá al-shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim ibn Muḥammad al-Jawjarī ʻalá al-Qaṣīdah al-hamzīyah fī al-madāʾiḥ al-nabawīyah

OCLC

229454676

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