Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Sharḥ Qaṣīdat al-Burdah
[شرح قصيدة البردة]

Authors

• Azharī, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1499
  ازهري، خالد بن عبد الله،
• Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
  بوصيري، شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد،
• Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
  سيوطي،

Other related names

• Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928, former owner

Call number

Penn Museum 29-201-709
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977565350103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111578490
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/29_201_709.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1196 (1782)

Place

Morocco?

Summary

Manuscript containing three texts, copied in three different hands. The first work is a commentary on the poem known as al-Burdah by al-Būṣīrī, the second is a response by al-Suyūṭī to questions about the Ḥadīth and the third is a set of poems and Ḥadīth excerpts.

Notes

• Titles supplied by cataloger.
   
• Modern pagination added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 205 x 150 (140 x 100) mm bound to 205 x 153 mm.
   
• Watermarked European paper.
   

Extent

1 online resource (74 paginated leaves, 2 flyleaves)

Binding

Bound in red leather with flap (Type II); blind-tooled frame with foliate blind-stamped outer frame and a centrally placed diamond made up of five small flower stamps and eight smaller circle with radiant lines stamps; the same small flower stamps appear in the corners of the inner frame and on the flap.

Layout

Written in 23-26 long lines with poetry in two staggered lines; ruled with a misṭarah.

Script

Written in maghribī in dark brown ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Acquired during the Expedition in Morocco by Talcott Williams and Sophia Wells Royce Williams, 1898.
   

Subjects topical

• Hadith--Texts--Early works to 1800
• Hadith--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Fascimiles
• Commentaries
• Compilation manuscripts
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — [Sharḥ Qaṣīdat al-Burdah].
• 93 — [Maʻānī al-daqīqah fī idrāk al-ḥaqīqah].
• 130 — [Selections of poetry and excerpts from Ḥadīth]