Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd 1213?-1296?—Burdah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 45H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Contains

• Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?. Burdah. [Browse]
• بوصيري، شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد، 1213?-1296? بردة. [Browse]

Summary note

The text of, and commentary on, al-Būṣīriʼs famous eulogy of the Prophet, known as al-Burdah.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 139 + i ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-14 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition with some loose folios and partially detached binding.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes in different hands.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Undated but probably of the late 18th century.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a)
• Colophon: والله تعالى اعلم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه العون. الحمد لله الذي جعل مقاديرالعلماء مع علوها متباينة

Binding note

Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind stamped with central mandorla with pendants and decorative tooled edging.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 716.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 266.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 525.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 67.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1286080659

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