The duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad, Walters Art Museum MS. W.580

The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/

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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

Bibliography

Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (New York; KoĚˆln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 1: 455; S1: 630.

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above the main framed area states that it is the third volume of the book of al-ShifÄ in the hadith. fol. 2b: Title: Right side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece Form: Frontispiece Label: This is the right side of an illuminated doublepage frontispiece of geometric design in gold, red, blue, and green, with a marginal rosette at the right. fol. 3a: Title: Left side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece Form: Frontispiece Label: This is the left side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece of geometric design in gold, red, blue, and green, with a marginal rosette at the left. fol. 3b: Title: Illuminated incipit page with titlepiece Form: Incipit; titlepiece Label: This illuminated incipit page includes a titlepiece framed by gold trefoils and vertical bars of gold strapwork, with a marginal rosette at the right. fol. 140a: Title: Illuminated explicit with tailpiece inscribed with a prayer for the Prophet Muhammad Form: Explicit; tailpiece Label: This illuminated explicit contains a tailpiece inscribed with a prayer for the Prophet Muhammad (the ᚣalwalah), with a palmette at the left.

Provenance

Old shelfmark 195 or 295; see fol. 1a and tail

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Binding

The binding is original.

Reddish-brown goatskin (with flap); gold-tooled frame; round central medallion with geometric pattern and two pendants

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Support material

Paper European laid paper

Extent

Foliation: 141 Text ends on fol. 140a

Collation

Catchwords: On versos of the first five folios of each quire

Dimensions

20.0 cm wide by 27.0 cm high

Written surface

13.0 cm wide by 18.5 cm high

Layout

Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 13

Contents

fols. 2a - 140a: Title: Kitāb al-Shifā fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá Incipit: Hand note: Written in Maghribī script in black ink with certain words highlighted in red and blue Decoration note: Double-page frontispiece (fols.

2b-3a); incipit with titlepiece (fol. 2a); incipit with titlepiece (fol. 3b); explicit with tailpiece (fol. 140a); illuminated trefoils as line fillers and paragraph markers

Decoration

Upper board outside: Title: Eighteenth-century reddish-brown goatskin binding Form: Binding Label: This reddish-brown goatskin binding with goldtooled frame and central medallion of geometric design with two pendants was produced in the Maghreb in the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. fol. 2a: Title: Illuminated incipit page with titlepiece Form: Incipit; titlepiece Label: This illuminated page begins with al-sifr althālith min Kitāb al-Shifā, written in a large Maghribi script in gold ink, indicating that it is the third volume of Kitāb al-Shifā by ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī. The inscription

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Shelf mark

Walters Art Museum Ms. W.580

Descriptive Title

Work on the duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad with an account of his life

Text title

Kitāb al-Shifā fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá Vernacular: Note: Volume 3 (al-sifr al-thālith); the word al-thālith is written in gold on the tail of the codex

Author

As-written name: Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsá ibn ʿIyāḍ alYaḥṣubī Supplied name: ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī (d. 544 AH / 1149 CE) Name, in vernacular: Note: Author name supplied by cataloger

Abstract

This illuminated manuscript is volume 3 of a work on the duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad known as al-Shifāʾ by ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī (d. 544 AH / 1149 CE).

It was copied in the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE in the Maghreb. The text is written in Maghribīi script in black ink with certain words highlighted in red and blue. The manuscript opens with an illuminated titlepiece indicating that it is volume 3 of al-Shifāʾ (fol. 2a), which is followed by a double-page frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a) and a page with another illuminated titlepiece (fol. 3b). It concludes with an illuminated explicit with tailpiece inscribed with the prayer for the Prophet Muhammad (fol. 140a). The binding is reddish-brown goatskin with a gold-tooled frame and a central medallion of geometric design with two pendants.

Date

12th century AH / 18th CE

Origin

Maghreb

Form

Book

Genre

Historical

Language

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.580, Work on the duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad with an account of his life Title: Kitāb al-Shifā fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá

Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2011