Item Summary

Two poems rhyming in mīm in praise of the Prophet. The first was composed by al-Shammāʻ, who is also a joint author of the second poem, which is of the type īdāʻ. In this īdāʻ the first hemistich of the first verse of the Burdah constitutes the first hemistich of the first verse in the present ode, the continuation of which is supplied by al-Shammāʻ. The second hemistich of the first verse of the Burdah constitutes the second hemistich of the second verse of the present poem, the beginning of which is likewise supplied by the author.

Descriptive Information

Title
مجموع حويى كتابين عظيمين : البديعية للشماع المصري والدرة المضية على الكواكب الدرية.
Transliterated Title
Majmūʻ ḥuwiyá kitābayn ʻaẓīmayn : al-Badīʻīyah lil-Shammāʻ al-Miṣrī wa-al-Durrah al-muḍīyah ʻalá al-Kawākib al-durrīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 47H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dccf95jp49r
Publisher
[not after 1629]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1000-1629
Format
Manuscript
Extent
60 leaves : paper ; 174 x 130 (130 x 90) mm bound to 174 x 136 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá dated 1039, ʻAbd al-ʻĀdil[?] Makkī al-Ṭūṭī[?] dated 1251 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 69.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2290.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents]
2. fol. 1b-28b: al-Badīʻīyah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-shahīr bi-al-Shammāʻ al-Miṣrī.
3. fol. 28b-60a: al-Durrah al-muḍīyah ʻalá al-Kawākib al-durrīyah.
4. fol. 60b: [Fawāʼid]
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from collective title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes by a later hand on folio 44. On folio 17a is a ʻʻtree of poetryʼʼ entitled "The Tree Comprising the Rising Stars." It contains the names of the Prophet and his Companions. Folio 28, on which the second poem begins, has been marked by a later hand with a blue silk thread stitched into it. The dates of composition of both poems are mentioned in the last verses of each, the first being 860 [1456] and the second [8]57 [1453]. Both were first written in the enclosure around the Kaʻbah. Page immediately after the colophon has a number of medical prescriptions for poisoned wounds and information on the use of banj (bhang).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 60 ; catchwords ; watermarks (later endpapers only) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11 lines per page.
Description: Written in alternating black and red ink ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition, some pages mended. Folio 1 appears to be a replacement.
Incipit: [البديعية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثفتي. هذه البديعيّة البديعة للشيخ الامام والحبر الهمام ... الشيخ محمد بن محمد بن محمد الشهير بالشماع المصري ... [الدرة المضية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بحمد ذي الطول والنعما والكرمسبحانه وتعالى * ابتدى كلمي ...
Ending: [البديعية] والحمد لله في سرو في علن والشكر لله في بدا ومختتم -- [الدرة المضية] والحمد لله حمداً لا نفاذ له واشکر الله في بداء ومختتم. تمت
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Gold tooled bindings
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
133

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/e238caca-3a31-48a1-b1dd-1fd5f1c1d45e/manifest