Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 4779Y

Metadata

DS ID:

DS28493

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 4779Y

Title:

Badīʻīyat / / بديعية /

Badīʻīyah

Author:

Ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī, -1434 / ابن حجة الحموي، تقي الدين ابو بكر بن علي

Ibn Hijjah al-Hamawi WIKIDATA

Date:

1814 or 1815

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 12, i leaves: paper ; 205 x 127 (145 x 65) mm. bound to 208 x 132 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 3b.
Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small professional naskh in black ink with use of red. Wove paper. Text hardly legible due to ink transfer. Short excerpts on fol 2b (inverted). Paper pastedown and free endpaper (re-used with printed Ottoman Turkish text).
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thālith 123". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "661/2 Ḥ".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on by al-Sayyid Muḥammad Amīn al-shahīr bi-Nādirī, one of the disciples (tilmīdh) of al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Amīn al-ʻarīf bi-ʻIzzatī in 1230 H. (fol. 9b).
From the books of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement, fol. 3a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Poetry

poetry

Early works

Manuscripts, Arabic

Nineteenth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

Devotional poetry, Arabic

Fifteenth century

Literature

Islamic poetry, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9953608613506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University