Walters Ms. W.586, Work on the duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad with an account of his life

W.586

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

Vernacular: الشفاء في تعريف حقوق المصطفى

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

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

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

Note: Author name supplied by cataloger

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.

16 Shawwāl 1191 AH / 1777 CE

Turkey

As-written name: Salīm al-Rashīd

Name, in vernacular: سليم الرشيد

Book

Historical

Astrological

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

1. Transliteration: katabahu ʿabd min ʿibād Allāh ʿazza wa-jalla wa-anā al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr /1/ al-mudhnib al-dhalīl al-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/
2. Comment: Gives short title of work, name of scribe, and date of copying

Paper

Laid paper

Foliation: ii+243+ii

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

Comments: Codex mostly made up of quires of ten folios (quinions)

10.5 cm wide by 18.0 cm high

5.5 cm wide by 11.5 cm high

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

1. Title: al-Shifāʾ fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá
2. Author: Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsá al-Yaḥṣubī al-Bāhilī
3. Scribe: Salīm al-Rashīd
4. Incipit: قال انبانا الفقيه القاضى ابو الفضل ... الحمد لله المنفرد باسمه ...
5. Text note: Some marginal corrections; main text enclosed in a golden frame
6. Hand note: Written in Turkish naskh script in black ink with incidentals in red and gold
7. Decoration note: Illuminated headpiece; framing lines in gold, red, and black

Upper board outside:

1. 
2. Title: Binding
3. Form: Binding
4. Label: This dark brown leather binding with flap is decorated with a lobed central oval with cornerpieces and borders.

fol. 1b:

1. 
2. Title: Illuminated incipit page with headpiece
3. Form: Incipit; headpiece

The binding is original.

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

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

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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