Item Summary

A collection of poems containing tasbīʻ of the Burdah of al-Būṣīrī by an unknown author, another ode of unknown authorship, one by Ḥasan ibn al-Tindī, and still another of unknown authorship. These are followed by selections from the Dīwān of Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Jaʻbarī, 820 [1417/8], an ode by al-Ustādh al-Bakrī, probably Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī 898-952 [1492/3-1545/6], a number of short selections by unknown authors, Muʻāraḍat Bānat Suʻād by al-Būṣīrī 608-694 [1211/2-1294/5], Takhmīs Lāmīyat Ibn al-Wardī, 689-749 [1290-1349], and an ode by al-Bahāʼ Zuhayr, 1258, beginning: Anā fī al-ḥubbī ṣāḥib al-muʻjizāt.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه تسبيع البردة ويليها بعض قصائد.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Tasbīʻ al-Burdah wa-yalīhā baʻḍ qaṣāʼid.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 48H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qv33s6230
Publisher
[18--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
69 leaves : paper ; 237 x 160 (170 x 110) mm. bound to 236 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 73.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 70 + ii ; catchwords ; paginated at center top in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS undated but probably of the early XIXth century ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 17-23 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تم والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب والى الله ترجع الامور
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هذه تسبيع البردة
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry
Arabic poetry—Early works to 1800
Poetry

Physical Characteristics

File Count
153

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/169bdab8-9057-4c22-a846-3485184083be/manifest