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Walters Ms. W.679, Two leaves depicting the Prophet Muhammad, Ali, and his sons Hasan and Husayn

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Shelf mark

W.679


Manuscript

Two leaves depicting the Prophet Muhammad, Ali, and his sons Hasan and Husayn


Text title
The Prophet Muhammad, Ali, and his sons Hasan and Husayn

Abstract

These two leaves are Ottoman Turkish illustrations. One depicts the Prophet Muhammad praying at the Kaʿbah, and the other depicts the Prophet Muhammad, ʿAlī, and his young sons Ḥasan and Ḥusayn. The illustrations were executed in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. They are presently mounted on the first and last leaves of an illuminated manuscript copied in nastaʿlīq script in 798 AH / 1396 CE by Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥusaynī.


Date

11th century AH / 17th CE


Origin

Turkey


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.


Extent

Foliation: 2


Dimensions

15.0 cm wide by 25.0 cm high


Layout
  1. Columns: 1
  2. Ruled lines: 12

Contents:
fols. W.679Aa - W.679Bb:
  1. Title: The Prophet Muhammad, Ali, and his sons Hasan and Husayn
  2. Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script
  3. Decoration note: Two illustrations mounted on the first and last leaves of an illuminated manuscript with a colophon written in nastaʿlīq script giving the scribe’s name as Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥusaynī and the date of copying as the end of Rabīʿ II 798 AH / 1396 CE.

Decoration:

fol. W.679Aa:

  1. W.679, fol. W.679Aa
  2. Title: The Prophet Muhammad praying at the Kaʿbah
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. W.679Ab:

  1. W.679, fol. W.679Ab
  2. Title: Text page with colophon
  3. Form: Text page; colophon
  4. Label: This is the back of an illustration of the Prophet Muhammad praying at the Kaʿbah from the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. It is an illuminated text page written in nastaʿlīq script with a colophon dated 798 AH / 1396 CE by Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥusaynī.

fol. W.679Ba:

  1. W.679, fol. W.679Ba
  2. Title: The Prophet Muhammad, ʿAlī, and his sons Ḥasan and Ḥusayn
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. W.679Bb:

  1. W.679, fol. W.679Bb
  2. Title: Incipit with illuminated headpiece
  3. Form: Incipit; headpiece

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Bibliography

Renard, John, ed. Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1998), 118; fig. 22.

Milstein, Rachel. Miniature Painting in Ottoman Baghdad. (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazdâ, 1990), 114; plate 43.


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.