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Walters Ms. W.580, Work on the duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad with an account of his life

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Shelf mark

W.580


Manuscript

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: كتاب الشفاء في تعريف حقوق المصطفى


Author

As-written name: Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsá ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī

Supplied name: ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī (d. 544 AH / 1149 CE)

Name, in vernacular: ابو الفضل عياض بن موسى بن عياض اليحصبي

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.


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
  1. Columns: 1
  2. Ruled lines: 13

Contents:
fols. 2a - 140a:
  1. Title: Kitāb al-Shifā fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá
  2. Author: Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsá ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī
  3. Incipit: القسم الثاني فيما يجب على الانام من حقوقه عليه الصلاة والسلام...
  4. Hand note: Written in Maghribī script in black ink with certain words highlighted in red and blue
  5. 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:

  1. W.580, Upper board outside
  2. Title: Eighteenth-century reddish-brown goatskin binding
  3. Form: Binding
  4. Label: This reddish-brown goatskin binding with gold-tooled frame and central medallion of geometric design with two pendants was produced in the Maghreb in the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE.

fol. 2a:

  1. W.580, fol. 2a
  2. Title: Illuminated incipit page with titlepiece
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Label: This illuminated page begins with al-sifr al-thālith 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 above the main framed area states that it is the third volume of the book of al-Shifā in the hadith.

fol. 2b:

  1. W.580, fol. 2b
  2. Title: Right side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece
  3. Form: Frontispiece
  4. Label: This is the right side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece of geometric design in gold, red, blue, and green, with a marginal rosette at the right.

fol. 3a:

  1. W.580, fol. 3a
  2. Title: Left side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece
  3. Form: Frontispiece
  4. 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:

  1. W.580, fol. 3b
  2. Title: Illuminated incipit page with titlepiece
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. 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:

  1. W.580, fol. 140a
  2. Title: Illuminated explicit with tailpiece inscribed with a prayer for the Prophet Muhammad
  3. Form: Explicit; tailpiece
  4. Label: This illuminated explicit contains a tailpiece inscribed with a prayer for the Prophet Muhammad (the ṣalwalah), with a palmette at the left.

Binding

The binding is original.

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


Provenance

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


Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Bibliography

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


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.