Item Summary

Poem in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad.

Descriptive Information

Title
القصيدة المباركة
Transliterated Title
al-Qaṣīdah al-mubārakah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 43H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3j333d232
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1899
Extent
24 leaves : paper ; 247 x 164 (140 x 91) mm. bound to 250 x 174 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement dated 1237 H. [1821] in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn al-marḥūm al-sayyid Ṣāliḥ al-Mashhadānī al-Bandārī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 61
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 24a [prev. 25a]).
The name of the author does not appear in the ms.
On fol. (i)b-1a and 24b : scribal exercice. Ex libris of Robert Garrett on the doublure of the upper cover, with on the opposite gold-sprinkled green fly-leaf pasted on fol. (i) the mention: "Put in by mistake".
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 24 + i ; 1-3⁸ ; catchwords on the verso of each leaf, often cut off by the trimming of the pages ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 7 lines per page.
Decoration: The text is divided in five panels with alternate thuluth written in gold and naskh in black ink, and fully vocalized. On the left and right sides of the naskh there is a panel decorated with a gilt and colored floral motif. The text is framed within gold, black and blue fillets. Elaborate illuminated headpiece of gold, blue, red, orange and white on fol. 1b.
Incipit: بسم ... امن تذكر جيران بذي سلم مزجت دمعا جرى من مقلة بدم
Explicit: ما رخّت عذبات البان ريح صباً واطرب العيس حادى العيس بالنعم
Binding Note
Upper and lower covers made of dark brown leather over pasteboards, with trace of a missing envelope flap. The covers are similarly decorated with a central gold stamped medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis and triangular corner pieces sunk in the leather, framed within a gold guilloche roll border defined by fillets. The upper cover is damaged. The edges have been repaired. The red leather doublure has a central gold and black stamped mandorla with short radiating gold painted sprigs and an outer frame made of golden filets and a guilloche roll. In his description, Hitti mentions an envelope flap which is now missing.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
60

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9663d5aa-5050-4178-8a34-1fdcac6a5d7f/manifest