Item Summary

A commentary on the famous Muḍarīyah Ode, a eulogy of the Prophet by al-Būṣīrī.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح القصيدة المضرية.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah al-Muḍarīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 52H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/zs25xk026
Publisher
not before 1124 [not before 1712]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1712-1900
Format
Manuscript
Extent
35 leaves : paper ; 212 x 127 (140 x 70) mm. bound to 212 x 128 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7842.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 78.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 35 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; important words underlined in red ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal glosses.
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 34b).
Colophon: وهذا آخرما يسره الله تعالى لنا من شرح القصيدة المضرية في الصلوة على خير البرية ونسأل الله تعالى ان يمن علينا بالقبول فانه غايت [ية] المسؤل قال الشارح نفعنا الله به في الدارين فرغنامنه يوم الاحد الثاني عشر من شهر صفر من سنة اربع وعشرين ومائة والف
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي فضل نبينا المرسل الينا
Binding Note
Later? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and blue and brown paper. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd 1213?-1296?—Muḍarīyah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
82

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/dc937f3b-4f97-4f15-b034-a2cd7cc72cad/manifest