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Matn al-Burdah : manuscript
Creator
بوصيري، شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد، 1213?-1296؟
Uniform Title
Burdah
بردة
Title
Matn al-Burdah : manuscript / Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Būṣīrī.
متن البردة : مخطوطة / شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد البوصيري.
Production
Cairo, 1886.
Physical Description
1 volume (26 leaves) ; 19 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from folio 1a.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Amin tadhakkuri jīrānin bi-Dhī Salami // mazajta damʻan jará min muqlatin bi-dami. Am habbati al-rīḥu min tilqāʼ Kāẓimatin // wa-awmaḍ al-barqu fī al-ẓalmāʼi min Iḍami ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. أمن تذكّر جيران بذي سلم // مزجت دمعًا جرى من مقلة بدم. أم هبت الريح من تلقاء كاظمة // وأومض البرق في الظلماء من إضم ..."
Secundo folio: Ayaḥsabu al-ṣabbu anna al-ḥubba munkatimun.
بداية الورقة الثانية: أيحسب الصبّ أنّ الحبّ منكتمٌ.
13 x 19 cm; written surface: 9.5 x 16 cm; 7 lines per page.
Binding: In marbled cardboard with flap.
In beautiful large naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in red; text fully vocalized, within double red frame; catchwords.
On folio 1a: "Matn al-Burdah lil-Imām Muḥammad al-Būṣīrī, nafaʻanā Allāh bi-hi. Āmīn."
Colophon: "Tammat bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ʻawnih fī yawm al-Arbiʻāʼ, al-muwāfiq arbaʻah wa-ʻishrīn yawman min shahr Allāh al-ḥarām Rajab, alladhī huwa min shuhūr sanat alf wa-thalāthimiʼah wa-thalāthah min al-Hijrah, ʻalá yad kātibihā al-faqīr ilá Allāh, Muḥammad Abū Muṭāwiʻ al-Suḥaymī al-Ḥusaynī al-Shāfiʻī, Imām wa-Khaṭīb Masjid al-Shuhadāʼ bi-al-Jamālīyah, bi-Miṣr al-maḥrūsah, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-al-Muslimīn. Āmīn. Ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh, wa-ashhadu anna Muḥammadan Rasūl Allāh."
الخاتمة: "تمت بحمد الله وعونه في يوم الأربعاء، الموافق أربعة وعشرين يومًا من شهر الله الحرام رجب، الذي هو من شهور سنة ألف وثلاثمائة وثلاثة من الهجرة، على يد كاتبها الفقير إلى الله، محمد أبو مطاوع السحيمي الحسيني الشافعي، إمام وخطيب مسجد الشهداء بالجمالية، بمصر المحروسة، غفر الله له ولوالديه والمسلمين. آمين. أشهد أن لا إله الّا الله، وأشهد أن محمدًا رسول الله."
Translation of the colophon: "It is completed by the praise of God and His help, on Wednesday, 24 Rajab, 1303 of the Hijrah [28 April, 1886], by the hand of its copyist, the poor to God, Muḥammad Abū Muṭāwiʻ al-Suḥaymī al-Ḥusaynī al-Shāfiʻī, the Imām and Preacher of Masjid al-Jamālīyah, in protected Cairo, may God forgive him, his parents and the Muslims. Amen. I confess that there is no god but God, and I confess that Muḥammad is the Messenger of God."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Summary
"al-Burdah" (the Mantle), or, "Qaṣidat al-Burdah" (Poem of the Mantle), by Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Būṣīrī, 1213?-1296?, a well-known Egyptian poet of Maghribī origin, born in Bahshīm (Egypt) in the region of Bahnasāwīyah, and died in Alexandria (Egypt); also called "al-Kawākib al-durrīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah" (Brilliant stars in praise of the Best of Mankind), a panegyrical poem praising the Prophet Muḥammad, who is said to have been praised ceaselessly by the afflicted poet, to the point that the Prophet appeared in a dream and wrapped him in a 'mantle' or 'cloak', hence the title of the poem. al-Burdah is a very much recited and memorized poem in the Muslim world. Copied on Wednesday, 24 Rajab, 1303 of the Hijrah (28 April, 1886), by Muḥammad Abū Muṭāwiʻ al-Suḥaymī al-Ḥusayni al-Shāfiʻī, the Imām and Preacher of Masjid al-Jamālīyah in Cairo (Egypt).
Variant and related titles
Burdah
بردة
Qaṣīdat al-Burdah
قصيدة البردة
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2019
References
Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Būṣīrī, Matn al-Burdah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Būṣīrī, Matn al-Burdah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 19th century.
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