[Ottoman Turkish expansion on al-Būṣīrī's qaṣīdat al-Burdah]
Contributors: Wahbī, ʻAbd Allāh, scribe; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1600
Language: ota
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Poetry; Early works to 1800; Arabic Manuscripts; Turkish Manuscripts
Description: Arabic text, in red, of al-Būṣīrī's poem known as al-Burdah accompanied by an Ottoman Turkish poetic expansion and translation.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Layout: Chiefly 15 lines in two colums, with some single lines centered; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Polychrome and gold headpiece (f. 1v) with a gold floral and geometric pattern marginal fill over the page-opening (f. 1v-2r); textblock border-ruled in gold; columns and lines also ruled in gold; floral finispiece in gold (f. 31r); rubrications in red.

Origin: Copy completed by ʻAbd Allāh al-Wahbī (f. 31r); possibly 17th century.

Added supplication on the verso of the last page bears the date 1054 A.H. (1644 CE) within the text (f. 31v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 424.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Turkish with source text in Arabic.

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with black inlaid central mandorla painted with gold foliate design; gold tooled frame; marbled paper doublure and endleaves.

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