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al-Qaṣīdah al-Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah : manuscript / Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Būṣīrī
Creator
بوصيري، شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد، 1213؟-1296؟
Uniform Title
Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah
همزية في مدح خير البرية
Title
al-Qaṣīdah al-Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah : manuscript / Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Būṣīrī.
القصيدة الهمزية في مدح خير البرية : مخطوطة / شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد البوصيري.
Production
Place not identified, 18th century.
Physical Description
1 volume (15 leaves) ; 21 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from reference sources.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Kayfa tarqá ruqīyaka al-anbiyāʼu // yā samāʼan mā ṭāwalathā samāʼu ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. كيف ترقى رقيّك الأنبياء // يا سماءً ما طاولتها سماء ..."
Secundo folio: Wa-ghadā kullu bayti nārin wa-fīhi.
بداية الورقة الثانية: وغدا كل بيت نار وفيه.
15 x 21 cm; written surface: 9 x 14.5 cm; 15-17 lines per page.
Binding: Unbound.
In beautiful naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; markings in red; some corrections on the margins; catchwords.
On folio 1a: "Hādhihi qaṣidat al-Hamzīyah lil-ʻārif al-muḥaqqiq Muḥammad al-Abūṣīrī, raḥima Allāh dawḥahu wa-nawwara ṣarḥahu. Āmīn. M."
على وجه الورقة 1: "هذه قصدة الهمزية للعارف المحقق محمد الأبوصيري، رحم الله دوحه ونوّر صرحه. آمين. م."
On folio 1a: A panegyrical poem, in eleven verses, praising the Prophet Muḥammad, by an anonymous author. It starts with: "Li-baʻḍihim. Aqrabu al-nāsi manzilan wa-maḥallan // min ḥabīb al-qulūbi Yawma al-Qiyāmah ..." And ends with: "... Wa-waṣaltum fa-ballighūhu salāmī // ayyada Allāhu rakbakum bi-al-salāmah."
على وجه الورقة 1: قصيدة، من أحد عشر بيتًا، في مدح النبي محمد، لمجهول. تبدأ بـِ: "لبعضهم. أقرب الناس منزلًا ومحلًا // من حبيب القلوب يوم القيمة [القيامة] ..." وتنتهي بـِ: "... ووصلتم فبلغوه سلامي // أيّد الله ركبكم بالسلامة."
"al-Hamzīyah" of al-Būṣīrī starts with: Kayfa tarqá ruqīyaka al-anbiyāʼu // yā samāʼan mā ṭāwalathā samāʼu. It ends with: Mā aqāma al-ṣalāta man ʻabada Allāha wa-qāmat bi-Rabbihā al-ashyāʼu.
تبدأ "همزية" البوصيري بـِ: كيف ترقى رقيّك الأنبياء // يا سماءً ما طاولتها سماء. وتنتهي بـِ: ما أقام الصلاة من عبد الله وقامت بربّها الأشياء.
Colophon: "Tammat bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ʻawnihi wa-ḥusn tawfīqihi. Āmīn."
الخاتمة: "تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه. آمين."
Translation of the colophon: "It is completed by the praise of God, His help and His abundant benevolence. Amen."
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-Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah", a panegyrical poem, called "al-Hamzīyah" after its "qāfiyah" (rhyme) which ends with the Arabic letter "Hamzah", in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad, by al-Būṣīrī (Abū ʻAbd Allāh Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?), a well-known Egyptian poet of Maghribī descent, born in Bahshīm (Egypt), in the region of Bahnasāwīyah, and died in Alexandria (Egypt). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
November 19, 2019
References
Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Būṣīrī, al-Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Būṣīrī, al-Hamzīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 18th century.
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