Item Summary

A rhetorical ode in praise of the Prophet.

Descriptive Information

Title
بديعية / الحميدي.
Transliterated Title
Badīʻīyah / al-Ḥamīdī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 438H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfj236c594
Publisher
[not after 1863]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1863
Format
Manuscript
Extent
13 leaves : paper ; 204 x 152 (125 x 80) mm. bound to 203 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muḥammad Ḥasanī ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Jamā[mī?] (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 566.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 35.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3248¹¹.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Title page bears date 1279.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 13 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition with large areas of staining.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. براعة المطلع والجناس الکامل والجناس الاشتقاقي
Colophon: والآل والصحب والاتباع ما دنف * کنى باسماء عما دام في کلمي. والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in fabric and yellow paper with block-pressed design.

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
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
34

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/19561f71-732e-4184-86fe-97d27d765308/manifest