قصيدة البردة

Walters Ms. W.582, Poem in honor of the Prophet Muhammad

Walters Ms. W.582, Poem in honor of the Prophet Muhammad

Qaṣīdat al-burdah

قصيدة البردة

al-Būṣīrī (d. 694 AH / 1294 CE) (author)

Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Būṣīrī (author)

شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد البوصيري (author)

Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Dūst Muḥammad al-Khuwārizmī (scribe)

This is an illuminated copy of the famous poem in honor of the Prophet Muhammad, popularly known as Qaṣīdat al-burdah (Poem of the mantle), composed by Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Būṣīrī (d. 694 AH / 1294 CE). The text was written in a variety of scripts in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. According to the colophon, written in riqāʿ script, it was executed by Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Dūst Muḥammad al-Khwārizmī. The text of the poem begins on fol. 5b. Each page has borders of various colors with illuminated floral and geometric motifs. The borders and brown leather binding date to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W582/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

Margins decorated with floral and geometrical designs, the latter in the form of stamp-like pendants

fol. 1b Incipit page with illuminated headpiece Incipit; headpiece The codex opens with this decorated incipit page with an illuminated rectangular headpiece. The page has five inner panels of text executed in the following scripts: muḥaqqaq (gold), naskh (black), and thuluth (blue).

fol. 5b Incipit page with illuminated headpiece Incipit The poem begins on this illuminated page. The central panel is framed by decorated margins and a domed headpiece. The text itself is divided into four panels executed in naskh (black) and thuluth (gold and blue) scripts.

fol. 23a Illuminated explicit page with colophon Explicit; colophon This is the final illuminated page in the codex. The last panel contains the colophon, written in riqāʿ script, giving the name of the scribe as Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Dūst Muḥammad al-Khwārizmī.

11th century AH / 17th CE

Two erased large seals (fol. 1a)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Arabic

paper

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