Item Summary

Autograph commentary on an amplification (takhmīs) of the pentastich poem of Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Baṣīr in praise of the Prophet.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الدر النضيد في شرح تخميس القصيد تصنيف الشيخ الامام العالم ابن العباس البصير / تأليف زين الدين عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن ابراهيم الرشيدي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Durr al-naḍīd fī sharḥ takhmīs al-Qaṣīd taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim Ibn al-ʻAbbās al-Baṣīr / taʼlīf Zayn al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Rashīdī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 58H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xk81jv95d
Publisher
23 Jumādá al-Awwal 774 [November 28, 1372]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1372
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(1), 108 leaves : paper ; 254 x 172 (185 x 120) mm. bound to 174 x 255 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Raʼīs Muḥammad al-Zaman dated 1180, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Ibrāhīm al-Raʼīs dated 1208 (fol. 1a). Under the colophon on the same page are two autographs of owners, one an Imām of a Madrasah. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 90.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 108 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubicated ; verse separators and other use of red ; some headings and other words overwritten in red ink, possibly at a later time or by a different hand ; MS in poor condition with a number of repairs and some staining.
Layout: 17-19 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses in different hands. On title page is a statement showing the wisdom of the Prophetʼs having been born on a Monday in Rabīʻ [I], a statement that the MS was written by the author himself. On page after colophon are a quotation of verse and prose ascribed to al-Shāfiʻī, another ascribed to Abū Zayd al-Bisṭāmī and eight verses of poetry entitled al-Mukhammas al-Laṭīf.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied 23 Jumādá al-Awwal 774 by the author (fol. 108b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: وافق الفراغ من تعليقه على يد مؤلفه عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن ابرهيم الرشيدي عفا الله تعالى عنه وعن والديه بمحمد وآله يوم الاحد ثالث عشرين جمادى الاول سنة اربع وسبعين وسبعمائة احسن الله تقصيرنا بخير وعاقبة بلا محنة انه على ما يشاء قدير والحمد لله رب العالمين
Incipit: [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. صلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وسلم. الحمد لله الذي نور بشمس معرفته قلوب اوليايه [اوليائه
Binding Note
Type II binding (with flap) in red leather and marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Baṣīr—Qaṣīdah
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)
Poetry
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
233

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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