A splendid treasury manuscript of the panegyric al-Kawakib al-Durriyya
fi Madh Khayr al-Bariyya- 'The Luminous Stars in the Praise of the
Best of Mankind' (Messenger Muhammad) by al-Busüyrï
(Šaraf al-Dïn
Abü-'Abdillah Muhammad bin-Sa'id al-Dalasi, d. 694 H., 1295 AD). The
poem is known as al-Burda- 'The Garment' which is of no parallel among
the panegyrics of Messenger Muhammad except the one by Ka'b bin
Zuhayr: Bänat Su'äd- 'Su'äd Walked Away.' The manuscript was
illuminated and transcribed in colored thuluth script, probably in the
10th century of the Hijra (16th century AD) for the personal library
of Lady 'Ã'iša bint-Ismä'il al-Khäzin. Ex libris inscriptions appear
in the opening, the oldest is dated back to 1051 H. (1641 AD).