Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 52H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]

Contains

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

Summary note

A commentary on the famous Muḍarīyah Ode, a eulogy of the Prophet by al-Būṣīrī.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 35 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; important words underlined in red ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 34b).
• Colophon: وهذا آخرما يسره الله تعالى لنا من شرح القصيدة المضرية في الصلوة على خير البرية ونسأل الله تعالى ان يمن علينا بالقبول فانه غايت [ية] المسؤل قال الشارح نفعنا الله به في الدارين فرغنامنه يوم الاحد الثاني عشر من شهر صفر من سنة اربع وعشرين ومائة والف
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي فضل نبينا المرسل الينا

Binding note

Later? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and blue and brown paper. Endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7842.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 78.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

هذا شرح قصيدۀ مضرية

Later title on folio i

• Hāz̲ā Sharḥ-i Qaṣīdah-ʼi Muḍarīyah

OCLC

1286280309

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