[مجموعة اشعار في مدح سيدي احمد البدوي].

[Majmūʻat ashʻār fī madḥ sayyidī Aḥmad al-Badawī].

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[not before 1790]
Description
56, (5) leaves : paper ; 226 x 102 (200 x 85) mm. bound to 226 x 102 mm.

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    Library of Congress genre(s)
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    Summary note
    Autograph copy? of a collection of original poems in praise of Sayyidī Aḥmad al-Badawī 596-675 [1199/200-1276] together with a eulogy of the same saint by ʻAbd Allāh Abū al-Nūr al-Aḥmadī and another by an unknown devotee (baʻḍ al-muḥibbīn).
    Notes
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 56 + (5) + ii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Decoration: Simple headpiece drawn in black and red ink.
    • Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents and "tre lvne") ; MS in good condition.
    • Layout: 21-34 lines per page.
    • Ms. codex.
    • The final two folios bear a few verses of poetry, five illegible seal impressions and two fāʼidahs. Fol. 1a has a statement, signed by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad Tajjār and bearing his seal impression, that he read the contents of the MS and was very pleased with it. Folios 31 and 34 each has a tree of poetry. Text runs parallel with back of cover.
    • Title supplied by cataloger.
    • Colophon: مالي سواه مجب عندي وما * هذاك الى [الاّ] انه يدعى حسن
    • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم. يا سيدي احمد يا بدوي يا قطب الرجال
    Binding note
    Later quarter-bound binding in oblong or safīnah format in brown leather and blue paper with orange and white block-stamped design.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 137.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    1288001929
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