Item Summary

The text of, and commentary on, al-Būṣīriʼs famous eulogy of the Prophet, known as al-Burdah.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح علي بن مجد الدين الشامردوري البسطامي على بردة المديح.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Sharḥ ʻAlī ibn Majd al-Dīn al-Shāmardawrī al-Busṭāmī ʻalá Burdat al-madīḥ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 45H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/08612z10q
Publisher
[17--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
139 leaves : paper ; 214 x 165 (150 x 88) mm. bound to 214 x 162 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 716.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 266.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 525.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 67.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 139 + i ; catchwords ; quires signed 1-14 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition with some loose folios and partially detached binding.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes in different hands.
Ms. codex.
Origin: Undated but probably of the late 18th century.
Title from title page (fol. 1a)
Colophon: والله تعالى اعلم
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه العون. الحمد لله الذي جعل مقاديرالعلماء مع علوها متباينة
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind stamped with central mandorla with pendants and decorative tooled edging.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
290

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e1428b71-e978-4981-8eae-66bc66dfdd7c/manifest