Details

Subject(s)

• Ḥillī, Ṣafī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Sarāyā 1278-—Badīʻīyah [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Figures of speech—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Future life—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 437H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• poetry [Browse]

Contains

• Ḥillī, Ṣafī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Sarāyā, 1278- Sharḥ Badīʻīyah. [Browse]
• حلي، صفي الدين عبد العزيز بن سرايا، 1278- شرح بديعية. [Browse]
• Suyūṭī, 1445-1505. Tathbīt ʻinda al-tabyīt. [Browse]
• سيوطي، 1445-1505. تثبيت عند التبييت. [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary by Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī on the his own Badīʻīyah, which was composed in praise of the Prophet and which illustrates various poetical forms. Followed by an urjūzah on questioning the dead in the grave by Suyūṭī.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Profession of faith dated 1229 and note: "qayyada bi-ism kātibihi Muḥammad Suyūfī" (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 34 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; verse separators in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition but worm-eaten.
• Origin: [Kitāb Sharḥ Badīʻīyah] According to colophon copied 2 Muḥarram 1122 (fol. 29b).
• Incipit: [كتاب شرح بديعية] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي حلل لنا سحر البيان ... وبعد فان احق العلوم بالتقديم -- [كتاب التثبيت] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله علي الاسلام والشكر لله علي الانعام
• Colophon: [كتاب شرح بديعية] وکان الفراغ من نسخها في ثاني شهر محرم سنة 1122 -- [كتاب التثبيت] تمت الارجوزه

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-29b: Kitāb Sharḥ Badīʻīyah / Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī.
• 2. fol. 30a-34b: Kitāb al-Tathbīt ʻinda al-tabyīt / li-Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.

Provenance

• Ownership signature of Badawī [?]īnah[?] and two seal impressions (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Ownership signatures: Badawī [?]īnah[?], Muḥammad Suyūfī and two seal impressions (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 565.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 33, V, p. 5, VI, p. 295.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7351/2.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3206¹.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 240².
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2793.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 986.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb Sharḥ Badīʻīyah.
• كتاب شرح بديعية.
• Kitāb al-Tathbīt ʻinda al-tabyīt.
• كتاب التثبيت عند التبييت.

OCLC

1331311617

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