Item Summary

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

Descriptive Information

Title
[هذا شرح البديعية الباعونية]
Transliterated Title
[Hādhā Sharḥ al-Badīʻīyah al-Bāʻūnīyah]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 441H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1g05fp08d
Publisher
8 Dhū [al-Qaʻdah] [10]58? [November 24, 1648?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1648
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(1), 91, (1) leaves : paper ; 148 x 95 (138 x 70) mm. bound to 148 x 101 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 568.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bāʻūnīyah, ʻĀʼishah bint Yūsuf -1516 or 1517—Badīʻīyah
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
Poetry

Physical Characteristics

File Count
197

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/51972831-6e9d-414f-b928-fc14fa575274/manifest