Qasidah al-Burdah

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text notes

list of words

Bibliography

title:		Qasidah al-Burdah
edition:		G.W.J. Drewes, Een 16de Eeuwse Maleise Vertaling van de Burda van Al-Busiri (Arabisch Lofdicht op Mohammad), 's-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, 1955.  Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, deel 18.
manuscript:		Ll. 6.25,  University of Cambridge Library.
dates:		text:  the Arabic original dates from the 1200s;  the date of the Malay translation is not known;    manuscript:  before 1604.
provenance:		Malay text:  perhaps Aceh; manuscript:  probably Aceh; in that case collected by Pieter Floris in 1604.
words:		3276 words.
references:		to the numbered verses (1-162) of the Arabic text in Drewes’ edition.

 

Editorial notes

The manuscript contains the Arabic text of the Burdah, with an interlinear Malay translation.  This Malay text is presented by Drewes.

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Added:  April 2001

Drewes' edition of 1955 was scanned for the MCP in Canberra using Recognita™ OCR. and its spelling was modernised.