Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 351B

Metadata

DS ID:

DS28375

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 351B

Title:

Collection of Arabic poems

Arabic poetry

Date:

1400-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Note:

Copied in Makkah, A.H. 863 [A.D. 1459] by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Murshidī al-Shīrāzī.
Fols. 41; 25.5 x 17 cm.; written surface 18.5 x 13.5 cm.; 12 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi and thuluth; with vowel signs; with catchwords; with illuminations.
A collection containing:
1. A pentastichous amplification (takhmīs) by Nāṣir al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-MāIikī al-Fayyūmī of Qaṣīdat al-Burdah, the famous ode in praise of the Prophet by al-Būṣīrī, A.H. 694 [A.D. 1294/5]. See Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7814¹.
2. A pentastichous amplification of Qaṣīdat Bānat Suʻād, the famous ode in praise of the Prophet by Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr.
3. [ʻUnwān al-ḥikam], a wisdom ode by Abū al-Fatḥ al-Bustī, A.H. 401 [A.D. 1010/1]. See Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 533/4; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7591.
MS illuminated in gold and color; medallions in gold and color in margins. MS in fair condition; Arabic cloth binding with flap.
Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

Keyword:

Poetry

Manuscripts, Arabic

Fifteenth century

Arabic poetry

Early works

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

Islamic poetry, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963585223506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University