Qaṣīdat al-Burdah
- Holding institution:
- Princeton University Library
- Data provider:
- Princeton University Library
- Title:
- Qaṣīdat al-Burdah
- Creator:
- Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
- Contributor:
- Ṭūman Bāy, Mamlūk Sulṭān, active 1516-1517
- Description:
- Fols. 29; 25.2 x 16.6 cm.; written surface 20.5 x 12 cm.; 6 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with full vowel signs; with illuminations.A few interlinear notes; ruled marginal lines in red and color throughout. On the top and bottom of the title page are two panels with florate designs in gold on a blue background and bearing the text in white ink. The space between these panels is filled with an octagonal medallion bearing the dedicatory inscription supplemented by a design similar to that mentioned above. Each of the following pages is decorated with six rosettes in blue and gold. At the bottom of the last folio, recto, is a panel showing a florate design in gold on green and blue on a ruddier gold. The signature of the copyist, Surūr Murjān, appears in white ink on an octagonal lozenge occupying the central portion of the panel. This copy was made for the library of the Mamlūk Sultan Ṭūmān Bāy, A.H. 922 A.D. 1517. MS in good condition; Arabic binding with flap.Acquired from Aṣfar and Sarkīs, Damascus, A.D. 1929.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type:
- Poetry
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Rights:
- https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services
- Identifier:
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4G
ark:/88435/p2677057f - Is part of:
- Digitized Manuscripts
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts