مجموع حويى كتابين عظيمين : البديعية للشماع المصري والدرة المضية على الكواكب الدرية.

Majmūʻ ḥuwiyá kitābayn ʻaẓīmayn : al-Badīʻīyah lil-Shammāʻ al-Miṣrī wa-al-Durrah al-muḍīyah ʻalá al-Kawākib al-durrīyah.

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Manuscript, Book
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Arabic
Published/​Created
[not after 1629]
Description
60 leaves : paper ; 174 x 130 (130 x 90) mm bound to 174 x 136 mm.

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    Two poems rhyming in mīm in praise of the Prophet. The first was composed by al-Shammāʻ, who is also a joint author of the second poem, which is of the type īdāʻ. In this īdāʻ the first hemistich of the first verse of the Burdah constitutes the first hemistich of the first verse in the present ode, the continuation of which is supplied by al-Shammāʻ. The second hemistich of the first verse of the Burdah constitutes the second hemistich of the second verse of the present poem, the beginning of which is likewise supplied by the author.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from collective title page (fol. 1a).
    • Marginal notes by a later hand on folio 44. On folio 17a is a ʻʻtree of poetryʼʼ entitled "The Tree Comprising the Rising Stars." It contains the names of the Prophet and his Companions. Folio 28, on which the second poem begins, has been marked by a later hand with a blue silk thread stitched into it. The dates of composition of both poems are mentioned in the last verses of each, the first being 860 [1456] and the second [8]57 [1453]. Both were first written in the enclosure around the Kaʻbah. Page immediately after the colophon has a number of medical prescriptions for poisoned wounds and information on the use of banj (bhang).
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 60 ; catchwords ; watermarks (later endpapers only) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 11 lines per page.
    • Description: Written in alternating black and red ink ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition, some pages mended. Folio 1 appears to be a replacement.
    • Incipit: [البديعية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثفتي. هذه البديعيّة البديعة للشيخ الامام والحبر الهمام ... الشيخ محمد بن محمد بن محمد الشهير بالشماع المصري ... [الدرة المضية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بحمد ذي الطول والنعما والكرمسبحانه وتعالى * ابتدى كلمي ...
    • Ending: [البديعية] والحمد لله في سرو في علن والشكر لله في بدا ومختتم -- [الدرة المضية] والحمد لله حمداً لا نفاذ له واشکر الله في بداء ومختتم. تمت
    Binding note
    Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents]
    • 2. fol. 1b-28b: al-Badīʻīyah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-shahīr bi-al-Shammāʻ al-Miṣrī.
    • 3. fol. 28b-60a: al-Durrah al-muḍīyah ʻalá al-Kawākib al-durrīyah.
    • 4. fol. 60b: [Fawāʼid]
    Provenance
    Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá dated 1039, ʻAbd al-ʻĀdil[?] Makkī al-Ṭūṭī[?] dated 1251 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 69.
    • Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2290.
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    • Badīʻīyah lil-Shammāʻ al-Miṣrī wa-al-Durrah al-muḍīyah ʻalá al-Kawākib al-durrīyah
    • بديعية للشماع المصري والدرة المضية على الكواكب الدرية
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    1340424747
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