Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 44H

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DS ID:

DS2441

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 44H

Title:

Sharḥ al-Burdah wa-iʻrābuhā / / شرح البردة واعرابها /

Sharḥ al-Burdah wa-iʻrābuhā

Author:

Ibn al-Qaṣṣār al-Tūnisī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, active 14th century / ابن القصار التونسي، احمد بن محمد، active 14th century

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Qaṣṣār al-Tūnisī WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Farḥūlī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makīn / فرحولي، محمد بن احمد بن محمد بن مكين

Date:

29 Jumādá II 790 [July 13, 1388

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 79 leaves : paper ; 250 x 170 (175 x 115) mm bound to 250 x 177 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. iii+ 79 + iii ; catchwords ; leaf two leaves before title page erroneously marked as fol. 1 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold with red and blue embellishments. Fol. 1a and 1b frame-ruled in gold. Top and bottom edges of text block have gold pattern ; title written on lower edge obscured by gold decoration.
Description: Title written in Maghribi ; text is in red and commentary is in brown ; verse separators in red ; MS is rare ; MS is in good condition with some mended folios.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses, some folios heavily annotated. After colophon is a note that Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlwān al-Miṣrī compared his copy [from which ours is made] with original of the author and was read to the author himself 765 (1850) and found in agreement with original. After the colophon a reader has inscribed his name and another the date of birth of his daughter, 950 (1543).
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied al-Aḥad 29 Jumādá II 790 by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makīn al-Farḥūlī (fol. 79a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a)
Before title page and on it occur names of several owners, including one dated 1267 (1850/51). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Poetry

illuminated manuscripts

Early works

Autographs

Headbands

headpieces (layout features)

Embossed papers

Burdah (Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd)

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963567413506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5a3b2255-4dc4-46df-aaeb-fc555a5d3b03/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University