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

W.580

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

Vernacular: كتاب الشفاء في تعريف حقوق المصطفى

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

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.

12th century AH / 18th CE

Maghreb

Book

Historical

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

Paper

European laid paper

Foliation: 141

Text ends on fol. 140a

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

20.0 cm wide by 27.0 cm high

13.0 cm wide by 18.5 cm high

1. Columns: 1
2. Ruled lines: 13

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

Upper board outside:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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.

The binding is original.

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

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

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

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

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

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