Item Summary

The text of the famous ode of al-Būṣīrī rhyming in hamzah in praise of the Prophet. Followed by a commentary on the ode by al-Sanbāṭī.

Descriptive Information

Title
مجوعة في اولها متن الهمزية ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Majūʻah fī awwalhā Matn al-Hamzīyah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 49H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tm70n474c
Publisher
[Istanbul], 1162 [1748 or 1749]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1749
Format
Manuscript
Extent
69 leaves : paper ; 223 x 167 (170 x 115) mm. bound to 230 x 174 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression bearing the following: "wa-mā tawfīqī illā billāh, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd-al-Raḥmān" (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 317.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 277.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 74, 76.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-15a: Matn Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah.
2. fol. 15b: Qaṣīdah. An ode of 17 verses described as made up of sayings of al-Aʻrābī and others of the learned, collected by Aḥwaj al-Wará and written by al-Shaykh ʻUthmān al-ʻUryānī
3. vol. 17b-69a: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah / Ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq.
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 69 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (fol. 1b) in gold, white, red and black. Frame-ruled in gold on fols. 1b and 2a.
Description: Full vowel signs ; sharḥ has text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 17-19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Marginal notes by different hands. Title page has list of contents. Title page of the sharḥ, bound upside-down, bears the names of different works. Page after colophon (fol. 69b) has a quotation from tradition, three verses of poetry attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and a citation from Minaḥ al-Ghaffār, the commentary on al-Timirtāshi's (+ 1004 [1595/6]) compendium of ḥanafī law Tanwīr al-Abṣār, to the effect that both drinking and selling of wine are forbidden to the Muslim.
Ms. codex.
Origin: [Matn al-Hamzīyah] According to colophon copied 1162 by ʻUthmān, Imām of Mihrumāh Sulṭān Mosque (fol. 15a) [Sharḥ al-Hamzīyah] According to colophon copied 1162 (fol. 69a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: [الهمزية] کتبه العبد المذنب عثمان الامام بجامع مهرماه سلطان حامداً لله تعالى ومصليا على نبيه محمد وآله وصحبه اجمعين الطاهرين الطيبين والحمد لله رب العالمين. سنة 1162 [شرح الهمزية] تمت الکتاب بعون الله الوهاب عفا عنه وعنهما. في 1162
Incipit: [الهمزية] متن الهمزية في مدح خير البرية. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. کيف ترقى رقيك الأنبياء [شرح الهمزية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله حق حمده والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد نبيه
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and dark brown spotted paper. Brown pastedowns and first flyleaf.

Discovery Information

Subject
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd 1213?-1296?—Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Poetry
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
148

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/f4976e6f-c867-4508-a4c7-25042b9468ee/manifest