Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

U. 10 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: شرح البديعية لابن حجة وهو الموسوم بخزانة الادب وغاية الأرب Part of a didactic poem in praise of the Prophet, designed to exemplify the use of rhetorical figures and illustrate, together with a commentary by the author, Abu'l-Maḥásin Taqiyyu'd-Din Abú Bakr b. 'Alí b. 'Abdi'lláh b. Hijja al- Hamawi (Brockelmann, II, 15), who died in 837/1434. The Badi'iyya is avowedly an imitation of the Burda of al-Búsíri; and the author's commentary, completed according to his own statement (f. 186) in Dhu'l-Hijja, 826/November, 1423, bears the titles Taqdim Abi Bakr and Khizánati'l-Adab wa-Gháyatu'l-Arab. The Khátima (ff. 185-186") runs as follows: قال المؤلف تغمده الله برحمته هذا المصنف المبارك اعنى البديعية وشرحها اذا ملكه متأدب شرفت نفسه عن النظر الى غيره من تذاكر الأدب فانّى ما تركت ما وقع من جيّده ورديه ونصبت البحث بين المقصرين والمجيدين ... وقد انتهت الغاية بحمد الله الى حسن الختام وأوردت فيه ما لا خفيت محاسنه على المتأمل ولا ضمنه صدر كتاب وأنا اسأل الله حسن الخاتمة ببركة الممدوح عليه افضل الصلوة والسلام قال المصنف رحمه الله فرغت من تأليفى هذا الكتاب فى شهر ذى الحجة الحرام سنة ست وعشرين وثمانمائة وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل ..... Colophon: وقع الفراغ من تكميله يوم الجمعة عاشر شهر شعبان الكريم سنة ثلاث وثمانين ومائة وألف وذلك بعناية سيدنا الفقيه الافضل الآدب الاكمل شمس الدين احمد بن اسمعيل الفضل ادام الله تعالى بقاه See Hajji Khalifa, vol. 1, No. 1737; Pertsch, Gotha Cat., p. 488, No. 2795 : and for other MSS. and commentaries, Brockelmann, II, 16. The complete work has been printed at Búláq and Cairo. An abridgment, entitled لمح حجة من شرح بديعية ابن حجة by Muhammad b. Ahmad as-Samannidi, is preserved at Paris in the Bibliothèque Nationale (De Slane, Cat. des manuscrits arabes, No. 3218). Of this copy, which originally contained ff. 433, more than half has been lost. It begins on f. 1a = f. 246a: اخذه الشيخ جمال الدين نباتة وتقوى عليه بالسيف فقال ادعو السيوف صقيلة من لحظهواذا دعوت لماه جاوبني الصدا Ff. 187 of 29'1 and 19'5 c. and 19 ll. Ff. 159-186 are written in a smaller hand and have 27 ll. on each page. Excellent large naskhí with headings of different colours. Vowel-points and other orthographical signs are frequently inserted. The date of transcription is that given above, viz., Sha'bán, 1183/November-December, 1769.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 187
Dimensions: 29.1 × 19.5 cm.

Layout

19 lines

Hand(s)

Excellent large naskhí with headings of different colours. Vowel-points and other orthographical signs are frequently inserted.

History

Origin: 1138 AH; 1769 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Completed under the patronage of Shams al-Din Ahmad ibn Isma'il al-Fadl.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

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JISC


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