Item Summary

A rhetorical ode in praise of the Prophet. The author states in the preface that he composed this ode to refute that of Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī 767-837 [1365/6-1434].

Descriptive Information

Title
بديعية.
Transliterated Title
Badīʻīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 439H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9s161h653
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
19 leaves : paper ; 233 x 166 (168 x 102) mm. bound to 233 x 168 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 567.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 35.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 140, VII, p. 464.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7374/5.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text (fol. 1b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 19 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with face-in-a-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله البديع صنعه واحکامه
Colophon: تمت وبالله المستعان وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد سيد ولد عدنان وعلى اله وصحبه اولي الفضل والرضوان وسلم تسليما کثيرا امين يا رب العالمين. تم
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper with block-pressed design. Brown paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Figures of speech—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
48

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d6c76f6f-5330-489e-97f3-ec02caaf31f6/manifest