مجموعة شعرية منتخبة من الكتاب المشهور المسمى البدر السافر عن انس المسافر ... [الخ]

Majmūʻah shiʻrīyah muntakhabah min al-kitāb al-mashhūr al-musammá al-Badr al-sāfir ʻan uns al-musāfir ... [etc.]

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[between 1714 and 1771]
Description
104 leaves : paper ; 191 x 142 (145 x 90) mm. bound to 197 x 155 mm.

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    Summary note
    A poetry anthology containing selections from al-Badr al-Sāfir arranged alphabetically by the authors. Followed by a poem by al-Ab al-Khūrī Nīqūlāwus, Muʻashsharāt al-Fāzānī al-Maghribī, poems by Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī and two verses by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-ʻAlawī.
    Notes
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 104 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition, but several folios worm-eaten.
    • Layout: 17-21 lines per page.
    • Marginal notes and glosses. On the inside of the front cover the contents of the book are set forth. The end is lacking.
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from heading (fol. 1b).
    • Ending: فمذ ارى نظري برقا اراق دمي * من طيبة لم اطق يوما ارى قدم
    • Incipit: من قول بعضهم يرثي احد خلانه ويظهر معايب الدنيا وضعف امل اصحابها
    Binding note
    Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown pebbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1b-62a: Selections from Badr al-sāfir ʻan uns al-musāfir.
    • 2. fol. 63a-66b: [Poem] / al-Ab al-Khūrī Nīqūlāwus. A poem in praise of Christ and the Apostles dated 1714.
    • 3. fol. 67a-74b: Muʻashsharāt al-Fāzānī. Poems arranged according to the alphabetical order of their rhyme.
    • 4. fol. 75a-97b: al-Qaṣāʼid al-farāyid al-maḥbūkāt al-Ṭarafayn / Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī.
    • 5. fol. 97b-104a: al-Badīʻīyah / Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī.
    • 6. fol. 104a: Badīʻīyah / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-ʻAlawī. Two verses of the poem.
    Provenance
    On the page before title page occur the title by a later hand, an obliterated name dated 1771 and the obscured autograph and seal impression of an owner, al-Muṭrān Aghābiyūs. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 150.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    • Badr al-sāfir ʻan uns al-musāfir. Selections.
    • بدر السافر عن انس المسافر. مختارات.
    OCLC
    1291212873
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