QASIDAT AL-BURDA ON WOOD, EARLY 20TH CENTURY QASIDAT AL-BURDA ON WOOD, EARLY 20TH CENTURY QASIDAT AL-BURDA ON WOOD, EARLY 20TH CENTURY QASIDAT AL-BURDA ON WOOD, EARLY 20TH CENTURY QASIDAT AL-BURDA ON WOOD, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

QASIDAT AL-BURDA ON WOOD, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3002594

Arabic manuscript on wooden panels, 22 wooden leaves with 11 lines to each page, written in thuluth, naskh and muhaqqaq script. The bismallah is in muhaqqaq script reserved in cloudband against a gilt ground, each page with 3 lines in large black thuluth script and 4 lines in black naskh script, ruled in gold, green and blue borders. Two opening pages and last two pages with gold and striking blue decoration, with a later morocco leather binding. Signed by al-Abd Muhammed Noqla, quoted from Alaeddin Tabrizi. Al-Burda is a thirteenth-century ode of praise for the Islamic prophet Muhammad composed by the eminent Sufi mystic Imam al-Busiri of Egypt. 22 by 15 cm.