The Duties of Muslims towards the Prophet Muhammad, Walters Art Museum MS. W.586

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from 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.

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

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Decoration

Upper board outside: Title: Binding Form: Binding Label: This dark brown leather binding with flap is decorated with a lobed central oval with cornerpieces and borders. fol. 1b: Title: Illuminated incipit page with headpiece Form: Incipit; headpiece

Provenance

Seal impression with the name al-Sayyid Abū Bakr al-Ḥilmī and the date 1281[?]AH / 1864-5[?] CE (fol. 1a)

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Binding

The binding is original.

Dark brown leather (with flap); lobed central oval with cornerpieces and borders; doublures of red leather with goldpainted ovals and cornerpieces

Bibliography

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

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ḍaʿīf Salīm al-Rashīd /2/ ghafara Allāh dhunūbahu wa satara ʿuyūbahu Allhumma /3/ iḥfaẓ li-ṣāḥibih wa-kātibih wa-qāriʾih /4/ wa-li-man naẓara fīhi min al-afāt wa-al-ʿilal āmīna /5/ yā rabb al-ʿālamīn qad tamma al-farāgh min taḥrīr /6/ h<ā>dhihi [sic] al-Shifāʾ al-sharīf li-sittat /7/ ʿashar min shahr Shawwāl al-mubārak /8/ baʿda al-ẓuhr min yawm al-aḥad /9/ li-sanat iḥdá wa-tisʿīn /10/ wa-miʾah wa-alf min hijrah /11/ man lahu al-saʿādah /12/ wa-al-ʿizz wa-al-majd / 13/ wa-al-sharaf /14/ Comment: Gives short title of work, name of scribe, and date of copying Support material

Paper Laid paper

Extent

Foliation: ii+243+ii

Collation

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos Comments: Codex mostly made up of quires of ten folios (quinions)

Dimensions

10.5 cm wide by 18.0 cm high

Written surface

5.5 cm wide by 11.5 cm high

Layout

Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 23 Framing lines in gold, red, and black

Contents

fols. 1b - 242b: Title: al-Shifāʾ fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá Incipit: Text note: Some marginal corrections; main text enclosed in a golden frame Hand note: Written in Turkish naskh script in black ink with incidentals in red and gold Decoration note: Illuminated headpiece; framing lines in gold, red, and black

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Shelf mark

Walters Art Museum Ms. W.586

Descriptive Title

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

Text title

al-Shifāʾ fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá Vernacular:

Author

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

Abstract

This manuscript is an illuminated copy of the popular work on the duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad known as al-Shifāʾ by ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī (d. 544 AH / 1149 CE). According to the colophon, it was completed in 1191 AH / 1777 CE by Salīm al-Rashīd. The text is written in Turkish naskh script in black ink with incidentals in red and gold. The dark brown leather binding is contemporary with the manuscript.

Date

16 Shawwāl 1191 AH / 1777 CE

Origin

Turkey

Scribe

As-written name: Salīm al-Rashīd Name, in vernacular:

Form

Book

Genre

Historical

Genre

Astrological

Language

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

Colophon

242b: Transliteration: katabahu ʿabd min ʿibād Allāh ʿazza wajalla wa-anā al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr /1/ al-mudhnib al-dhalīl al-

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from 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 selections fromWalters Ms. W.586, Work on the duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad with an account of his life Title: al-Shifāʾ 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