[al-Kawākib al-durrīyah fī madḥ khayr al-barīyah,
late 15th or early 16th century?].

[الكواكب الدرية في مدح خير البرية, اواخر القرن 15 او اوائل القرن 17م؟].

Description

Main Author

Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?.

Language(s)

Arabic ; Turkish, Ottoman

Published

[1480-1520?].

Subjects

Muḥammad, > Muḥammad, / Prophet, > Muḥammad, / Prophet, / -632 > Muḥammad, / Prophet, / -632 / Poetry > Muḥammad, / Prophet, / -632 / Poetry / Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Turkish > Manuscripts, Turkish / Michigan > Manuscripts, Turkish / Michigan / Ann Arbor.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.

Summary

Fine copy of al-Būṣīrī's poem in praise of the Prophet accompanied by elucidation in Turkish ; opens with preface (see pp.2-3).

Note

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 446
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; perhaps late 15th or early 16th century as suggested by paper and hand.
Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures and interior of flap in dark green leather ; hinges in blue paper cut with scalloped design ; upper and lower covers bear large stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla with pendants (compare Déroche class. OAi 10) as well as gilt roll border consisting of a series of s-shaped stamps ; design continues on envelope flap ; upper and lower doublures carry tooled and gold-painted outline of scalloped mandorla and gold-painted rule border ; sewn in black thread, four stations ; endbands lacking ; in fair condition with much abrasion, staining, and lefiting of leather at edges and on spine ; some delamination of boards.
Support: mainly Arab laid paper of perhaps two types, each with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly indistinct with some curving) and chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes, in one type spaced roughly 12-14 mm. apart with 30 mm. between groups (see p.4, etc.) and in another type spaced roughly 12 mm. apart with 38-40 mm. between the groups (see p.36, etc.), inclusions visible, sturdy, medium cream in color, burnished ; leaf carrying pp.23-24 delaminating at upper outer corner ; back flyleaf in heavy laid European paper with chain lines oriented horizontally spaced roughly 30 mm. and laid lines oriented vertically, quite distinct and spaced roughly 8-9 laid lines per mm. ; front flyleaf in smooth, thin European laid paper with chain lines oriented horizontally spaced roughly 25 mm. apart, laid lines very fine and faint, difficult to measure, watermark partially visible (lion rampant in shield).
Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes appear in preface and throughout the text of the poem and its translation, often appearing between the saṭr and ʻajuz for each bayt ; written area of preface (pp.2-3) bordered in frame consisting of gold band outlined by black fillets ; partially rubricated with final words of the ʻajuz for each bayt occasionally in red.
Script: Very fine calligraphy ; saṭr and first words of ʻajuz for each bayt in thuluth, final words of ʻajuz in tawqīʻ ; text of preface and elucidation in fine Ottoman naskh with right-sloping head serifs on lām of definite article and other ascenders apart from free-standing alif, gentle slant to the left ; preface, text of poem and elucidation fully vocalized.
Layout: Written in 10-14 lines per page, 5 lines of the poem and 5-9 of the amplification, with the saṭr and first few words of the ʻajuz of each bayt filling the column width horizontally and the remainder of the ʻajuz appended diagonally, the elucidation in Turkish appearing on the following line or occasionally the following two lines centered below the saṭr and first few words of the ʻajuz ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board cearly evident).
Collation: i, III(6), VI(18), i ; catchwords present, but only partially visible or completely cut off ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.
Explicit: "ما رنحت عذبات البان ريح صبا واطرب ...العيس حادي العيس بالنغم وصلى الله على خير خلقه محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين وسلم تسليما"
Incipit: "قال الشيخ الامام العالم حجة الادب لسان العرب قدوة الانام بقية السلف الكرام شرف الدين ابو عبد الله محمد بن سعيد البوصيري رحمه الله سبب انشاء هذه القصيدة المباركة اني كنت قد اصابني خلط فالج ابطل نصفي ... وبه ثقتي وعليه التكلان من الخدلان امن تذكر جيران بذي سلم مزجت دمعا جرى من مقلة بدم اكد كمى ذى سلمدگى اهل وجيرتى كم قان ياش اغلمق كوزكك اولدى عادتى"
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Inventory marks include paper label pasted on spine, on front flyleaf in pencil "333 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]", and on p.1 in pencil "30".

Physical Description

18 leaves : paper ; 251 x 170 (131-180 x 77-120) mm.

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