Details

Subject(s)

• Bāʻūnīyah, ʻĀʼishah bint Yūsuf -1516 or 1517—Badīʻīyah [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—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. 441H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the authorʼs own work, al-Badīʻīyah, which is a rhetorical ode in praise of the Prophet.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger based on interpretation of headpiece.
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 91 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and gray-blue on folios 1-12.
• Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; MS in good condition but worm-eaten.
• Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece of dark brown.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 8 Dhū [al-Qaʻdah] [10]58 by Muḥammad ʻUthmān al-Rāzī (fol. 91b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقى الحمد لله مجلي جياد الافهام بعقود مدح الشفيع ومحالي سلامة الاذواق ... تكريما وبعد فهذه قصيدة صادرة عن ذات قناع شاهدة بسلامة الطباع
• Colophon: ختمت هذه القصيدة [بعون] الله تعالى على يد كاتبها الفقير محمج عثمان الرازى في سنة 8 ذى 58

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red and brown marbled paper. Light green paper pastedowns. Spine is damaged and upper cover is loose.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 568.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ al-Badīʻīyah al-Bāʻūnīyah
• شرح البديعية الباعونية

OCLC

1331325179

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