Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS Arabic 521 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)

Manuscripts in Arabic

Contents

1 copy of al-Qaṣīdah al-Hamzīyah fī madḥ al-nabī by Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd

Incipit: (basmala) fol.1b.1 بِسْمِ اللهِ الَرّحمنِ الرَّحِيمِ وبه نستعين
Incipit: fol.1b.2 كَيْفَ تَرْقٺ رُقِيّكَ الْاَنبٺاءُ يَا سَماءً مَا طاَولَتْها سَماءُ لَمْ يُساؤُكَ في عُلآكَ وَقَدْ حَال سَنًا مِنْكَ دُوَنهُمْ وسَنَاءُ إنَّماَ مثَّلوُا صِفاتِكَ لِلنّاسِ كَمَا مَثَّلَ النُّجوُمُ اْلمَاءُ
Explicit: fol.13b.4 وثناءٌ قدّمت بين يَدَيْ نجواي اذ لم يكن لديّ ثرآءُ ما اقام الّصلوة [sic] من عبد الله وقامت بربّها الاشياءُ طلاْ نظم عالمٍ بوصيري فعسى يرتضي بها الْعلمآءُ وصلّي الله علي سيّدنا محَمّدٍ وآله واصحابه اَجْمَعيْنَ تمتّ
Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Burnished
Extent: 15 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 134 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 87 mm.
Foliation: Pencil, European; Catchwords present.

Collation

01+13+002

Condition

Deteriorated

Layout

1a 9

2a-13a 9

13b 9

Hand(s)

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black

19 114 0.8 90 28

Decoration

Drawings on fols. 1a, 1b, 2a, 13b.

Additions:
  • Fol.1a: Decorated and coloured circles containing the names of the first four caliphs and al-Ḥasan, son of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
  • Fol.13b: Decorated and coloured circles; human and animal illustrations.

Binding

212 × 141 mm. Paper; paper / cloth.

History

Origin: 1151; 1738 CE

Bibliography

    Kashf al-zunūn: 1349; Muʿjam al-muʾallifīn: 3:317; Brockelmann: S1:467

Subjects

  • Arabic poetry
  • Devotional poetry, Arabic

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