U. 9 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: وتريأت. An anonymous Arabic poem in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, somewhat in the style of the celebrated Burda of al-Búsiri, beginning: صلوتي وتسليمي وأزكى تحيتيعلى من له وجه من الشمس اضواء
The poem is in the form of a takhmís, or "fivesome," four half-verses rhyming
together being followed by a fifth which maintains the same rhyme throughout the
canto, the cantos being arranged under these principal rhymes in alphabetical order. Thus under the isolated verse already cited the first stanza حرف الالف begins: بدأت بذكر الله مدحا مقدما وأثنى بحمد الله شكرا معظما وأختم قولي بالصلوة وإنما
أصلى صلوة تملأ الأرض والسماء
على من له اعلى العُلا متبوا نبي له في خصرة القدس منزلوحجابه الاملاك وهو مسجل
أتى آخرا في بعثه وهو اوّل
أقيم مقاما لم يقم فيه موسل
وأمست له حجب الجلال توطأ Each canto comprises about twenty stanzas of five hemistichs, like the two given
above. The title Witriyyát occurs only in a later hand on f. 1ª. The MS., acquired from the Belshah collection with that last mentioned,
comprises 62 ff. of 20'8 x 14'8 c. and 15 ll. It is written in a large and rather coarse
but legible naskh with rubrications, and is dated 1200/1785-6.
The poem is in the form of a takhmís, or "fivesome," four half-verses rhyming
together being followed by a fifth which maintains the same rhyme throughout the
canto, the cantos being arranged under these principal rhymes in alphabetical order. Thus under the isolated verse already cited the first stanza حرف الالف begins: بدأت بذكر الله مدحا مقدما وأثنى بحمد الله شكرا معظما وأختم قولي بالصلوة وإنما
أصلى صلوة تملأ الأرض والسماء
على من له اعلى العُلا متبوا نبي له في خصرة القدس منزلوحجابه الاملاك وهو مسجل
أتى آخرا في بعثه وهو اوّل
أقيم مقاما لم يقم فيه موسل
وأمست له حجب الجلال توطأ Each canto comprises about twenty stanzas of five hemistichs, like the two given
above. The title Witriyyát occurs only in a later hand on f. 1ª. The MS., acquired from the Belshah collection with that last mentioned,
comprises 62 ff. of 20'8 x 14'8 c. and 15 ll. It is written in a large and rather coarse
but legible naskh with rubrications, and is dated 1200/1785-6.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 62
Dimensions: 20.8 × 14.8 cm.
Layout
15 lines
Hand(s)
Large and rather coarse but legible naskh with rubrications.
History
Origin: 1200 AH; 1785-6 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
The MS., acquired from the Belshah collection with that last mentioned
Bequest of E. G. Browne.
Record Sources
Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.
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