Item Summary

Collection of texts in Arabic and Turkish, mostly on religious matters.

Descriptive Information

Title
تسبيع لقصيدة البردة ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Tasbīʻ li-Qaṣīdat al-Burdah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5380Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cn69m420r
Publisher
1131 [1718 or 1719]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1718
Format
Manuscript
Extent
197 leaves : paper ; 215 x 150 (143 x 65) mm. bound to 217 x 157 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Purchase ; Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1793, 2014, 2049, 2926, 2959, 3798, 4153, 4564, 4579, 4745, 5252
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 663/3; I, 266 (tasbīʻ. b); SI, 470 (tasbīʻ. b); II, 441/16; 656/16; II, 450/32; SII, 669/32; II, 437 (32/17); SII, 648; II, 319 (15/4); SII, 439 (14/4); SI, 287/VIII; SII, 426/31.
Atsiz, N. Birgili Mehmed Efendi ... bibliyografyası (1966), no. 21, 4, 50, 111
Rossi, E. "Çelebi" kelimesi hakkında Ebū s-Suʻūdʼa atfedilen bir fetva, in Türk dili araştırmaları yilliği belleten (1954), 11-14.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-2b: [Several inscriptions and short excerpts].
2. fol. 3a: [Table of contents] Written in violet ink by a later hand.
3. fol. 7b-26a: Tasbīʻ li-Qaṣīdat al-Burdah / Muḥammad al-Malaṭī al-Miṣrī [Niyazî]. Amplification of the Qaṣīdat al-Burdah of Būṣīrī.
4. fol. 27a-31b: Īqāẓ al-nāʼimīn / Muḥammad Efendī al-Birkawī. Exhortation to the believers.
5. fol. 31b-34a: [Commentary on a sentence from Īqāẓ al-nāʼimīn].
6. fol. 34b-38b: Naṣīḥat al-mulūk / [Mehmet Efendi Birgivı̂, d. 1573]. Mirror of princes in three chapters (bāb): Fī madḥ al-sulṭān al-ʻādil
Fī dhamm al-sulṭān al-ẓālim
Fī al-naṣīḥah.
7. fol. 39a-49a: Radd wa-ibṭāl fatwá Abī al-Saʻūd / Muḥammad al-Birkawī. Refutation in Turkish of fatwas by [Muḥammad] Abū al-Saʻūd.
8. fol. 49b-52a: [On samāʻ and dhikr] / [Muḥammad Abū al-Saʻūd]. Short legal treatise regarding dhikr.
9. fol. 52b-58a: [Short excerpts on blamable innovation, etc.]. Excerpts from al-Suyūṭī, Abū al-Saʻūd, etc.
10. fol. 58b-61a: Risālah fī ḥaqq abaway Rasūl Allāh / Ibn al-Kamāl al-wazīr. Treatise on the religious status of Muḥammad's parents.
11. fol. 61b-62b: Risālah fī ḥukm qirāʼāt āyat al-Kursī ʻaqīb kull ṣalāh / Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah [al-Āydīnī]. Treatise on legal questions regarding ʻibādāt, and more specifically, the recitation of the Verse of the Throne after the prayer.
12. fol. 62b-63a: [Short excerpts on the same topic]. Excerpts from Tuḥfat al-ikhwān fī faḍāʼil shahr Rajab wa-Shaʻbān; al-Durrah al-muḍīʼah; Ṣiḥāḥ al-Maṣābīḥ.
13. fol. 63b-64a: Risālat Abī Saʻūd fī bayān lafẓ jalab / Abū Saʻūd Efendi. Short treatise on the meaning of the words çeleb and çelebi.
14. fol. 64b-65a: Risālah fī ḥukm al-taḥīyah bi-ghayr al-salām / Muḥammad al-Kūzalhiṣārī [al-Āydīnī]. Short treatise on a salutation formula in Turkish and its conformity to Islam.
15. fol. 65a-67b: [Short excerpts from several texts, mostly commentaries of the Qurʼān].
16. fol. 68a-87b: ʻIddat asʼilah wa-ajwibah / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Zurqānī. Answer to 53 questions in verses (by Muḥammad Sibṭ Aḥmad?, see GAL) on various topics
17. fol. 88a-90a: [Short excerpts from several texts].
18. fol. 90b-95a: Risālah fī miʻrāj al-Rasūl / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Qasṭallānī. Excerpts from al-Mawāhib al-ladūnīyah of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Qasṭallānī.
19. fol. 95b-104a: [Short excerpts from several texts]. Excerpts fromTuḥfat al-ikhwān fī faḍāʼil shahr Rajab wa-Shaʻbān; al-Durrah al-muḍīʼah; Ṣiḥāḥ al-Maṣābīḥ.
20. fol. 104b-107b: al-Aḥādīth allatī wuridat fī ḥaqq al-walīmah wa-ḥukmihā / ʻAlī al-Qārī. Collection of several ḥadīths on banquet.
21. fol. 108a-181a: [Short excerpts from several texts: Sharḥ dalāʼil al-khayrāt / Muḥammad al-Mahdī al-Fāsī (d. 1698); Mishkāt [al-maṣābīḥ / Muḥammad Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī (fl. 1337)] ; Kitāb ṣifat ṣāḥib al-dhawq, Tawārīkh al-khulafāʼ, Ḥuṣūl al-rifq bi-uṣūl al-rizq / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūtī (d. 1505); Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān / Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī (d. 1405); Kitāb al-arbaʻīn / Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī (d. 1111); Sharḥ al-Mishkāt / ʻAlī al-Qārī (d. 1605 or 6); Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn / Abū al-Layth [al-Samarqandī] (d. 983?); al-Qāḍī [al-Bayḍawī?] fī sūrat al-Baqarah, fī sūrat al-Nisāʼ, fī sūrat al-Nūr]; al-Bazāzīyah ... etc.].
22. fol. 181b-182a: Waṣīyat Abī Ḥanīfah li-tilmīdhihi Yūsuf ibn Khālid. Ethical will of Abū Ḥanīfah to his disciple Yūsuf ibn Khālid al-Sumtī al-Baṣrī.
23. fol. 182b-183b: [Risālah fī al-ḥadr wa-al-jazm fī al-iqāmah].
24. fol. 184a-188b: [Blank].
25. fol. 189a: [Verses of poetry].
26. fol. 189b-191a: Maqālah / Kamāl Efendī [Kemalpaşazade?].
27. fol. 191a-195b: [Fatwas] / Muḥammad Saʻd al-Dīn.
28. fol. 196a-b: Risālah fī al-kanāʼis al-Miṣrīyah / Zayn ibn Nujaym al-Ḥanafī. Treatise on legal questions regarding churches(?).
29. fol. 197a: [Short excerpts in Turkish].
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes. Inscriptions and ownership statements on fol. 1a. Title on the lower edge of the text block. Label pasted on the upper cover with the inscription in Arabic script " ... 314". Label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover with the inscription in Arabic script "Ḥ 471/2".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 197 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: Number of lines per page varies.
Description: Written in black ink ; rubricated ; watermarks ; two pages are cut off between fol. 196 and 197.
Decoration: Fol. 7b-8a have a golden and black frame with an illuminated headpiece in blue, gold, grey and red.
Origin: [Risālah fī ḥaqq] Copied in 1131 H. (colophon, fol. 61a) -- [ʻIddat asʼilah wa-ajwibah] Copied 1131 by al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj Ḥusayn al-Sāfirī (fol. 87b).
Incipit: [رسالة ابي السعود] الحمد لله الذى علم الانسان ما لم يعلم والصلوة على محمد سيد العرب والعجم وعلى اله واصحابه ينابيع العلوم والحكم وبعد فنقول -- [رسالة في حكم التحية] الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى اعلم ان قول العوام بالتركية صباحك خيراولسون زيادة على ما وردت به السنة السنية من التحية الاسلامية -- [عدة اسئلة] الحمد لله وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى اما بعد فقد جآءنى بعض الناس باسئلة جمعها من اماكن شتى وجعلها نظماً -- [رسالة في معراج] رسالة في معراج الرسول صلى الله تعالى عليه وسلم مأخوذة ومنتخبة نت المواهب اللدنية للشيخ الامام القسطلانى -- [الاحاديث التي وردت] قال مولانا سلطان العارفين على القارى ... فى شرح مشكاة المصابيح فى ذيل حديث -- [وصية ابي حنيفة] هذه وصية الامام ابى حنيفة ... لتلميذه يوسف بن خالد السمتى ووصى بها حين استأذن للخروج لاوطن البصرة -- [مقالۀ كمال] الحمد لله الذى جعلنا من خدام الشريعة النبوية واعطانا ... استنباط الوقايع من الكتب المعتبرة الفقهية ... اما بعد باعث تحرير سطور هر قصور كه درون خاطرين -- [رسالة في الكنائس] مسئلة كنيسة ... التى فعلت فى زمن الشيخ محمد بن الياس وام السلطان فى سنة سبع وستين وتسعمائه ان ينظر فيها بالشرع
Incipit: [تسبيع] محمد جاء بالايات والحكم مبشراً ونذيراً جملة الامم-- [ايقاظ النائمين] الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة ... وبعد فهذه رسالة معمولة لايقاظ النائمين وافهام القاصرين ما ادعيناه واظهرناه حيث كان للناس فتنة بسبب الذهول والغفلة -- [نصيحة الملوك] الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة ... اما بعد فلما من الله تعلى على المومنين باعزاز دينهم واحوال دنياهم بنصب الامير -- [رد وابطال] مرحوم ومبرور سلطان سليمان خان عليه الرحمة والرضوان حضر تلرينک خط شريفلرى -- [On sama] لحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة ... وبعد فقد طالعت ايها الاخ رسالتك هذه زاد الله تعلى اهتمامك بامر الدين واحياء السنة -- [رسالة في حق] لحمد لله الذى كرم بنى آدم وفضل نسله بفضل احسانه والصلوة على من خصه الله تعالى بطهارة النسب وحفظ آبائه من الدنس تعظماً لشانه -- [رسالة في حكم] الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى اعلم ان قيآءة آية الكرسى ادبار الصلوات المكتوبة ليست بفريضة
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and brown and yellow marbled paper over paper pasteboards. The same marbled paper is used for the doublure.

Discovery Information

Subject
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd 1213?-1296?—Burdah
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Early works to 1800
Abū al-Saʻūd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1492 or 1493-1574 or 1575—Fatāwá
Sumtī, Yūsuf ibn Khālid
Devotional poetry, Arabic—Early works to 1800
Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800
Muslims—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800
Education of princes—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800
Sufi chants—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Faith (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Baqarah, 255—Early works to 1800
Turkish language—Lexicology—Early works to 1800
Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Salutations—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Wills, Ethical—History—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
398

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a7776fc3-378f-4ab7-b01d-e7e909a43452/manifest