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Decoration Upper board outside:Title: BindingForm: BindingLabel: This dark brown leather binding with flap isdecorated with a lobed central oval with cornerpiecesand borders.

fol. 1b:Title: Illuminated incipit page with headpieceForm: Incipit; headpiece

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

Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Binding The binding is original.

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

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

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ḍaʿīf Salīm al-Rashīd /2/ ghafara Allāh dhunūbahu wasatara ʿuyūbahu Allhumma /3/ iḥfaẓ li-ṣāḥibih wa-kātibihwa-qāriʾih /4/ wa-li-man naẓara fīhi min al-afāt wa-al-ʿilalāmīna /5/ yā rabb al-ʿālamīn qad tamma al-farāgh mintaḥrīr /6/ h<ā>dhihi [sic] al-Shifāʾ al-sharīf li-sittat /7/ ʿasharmin shahr Shawwāl al-mubārak /8/ baʿda al-ẓuhr min yawmal-aḥad /9/ li-sanat iḥdá wa-tisʿīn /10/ wa-miʾah wa-alf minhijrah /11/ man lahu al-saʿādah /12/ wa-al-ʿizz wa-al-majd /13/ wa-al-sharaf /14/Comment: Gives short title of work, name of scribe, and dateof copying

Support material Paper

Laid paper

Extent Foliation: ii+243+ii

Collation Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

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

Dimensions 10.5 cm wide by 18.0 cm high

Written surface 5.5 cm wide by 11.5 cm high

Layout Columns: 1Ruled lines: 23Framing lines in gold, red, and black

Contents fols. 1b - 242b:Title: al-Shifāʾ fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-MuṣṭafáIncipit:

Text note: Some marginal corrections; main textenclosed in a golden frameHand note: Written in Turkish naskh script in black inkwith incidentals in red and goldDecoration note: Illuminated headpiece; framing linesin gold, red, and black

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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.586

Descriptive Title Work on the duties of Muslims toward the ProphetMuhammad with an account of his life

Text title al-Shifāʾ fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-MuṣṭafáVernacular:

Author As-written name: Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsá al-Yaḥṣubī al-BāhilīSupplied name: ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī (d. 544 AH / 1149 CE)Name, in vernacular:

Note: Author name supplied by cataloger

Abstract This manuscript is an illuminated copy of the popular workon the duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammadknown as al-Shifāʾ by ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī (d. 544 AH / 1149CE). According to the colophon, it was completed in 1191AH / 1777 CE by Salīm al-Rashīd. The text is written inTurkish naskh script in black ink with incidentals in red andgold. The dark brown leather binding is contemporary withthe manuscript.

Date 16 Shawwāl 1191 AH / 1777 CE

Origin Turkey

Scribe As-written name: Salīm al-RashīdName, in vernacular:

Form Book

Genre Historical

Genre Astrological

Language The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

Colophon 242b:Transliteration: katabahu ʿabd min ʿibād Allāh ʿazza wa-jalla wa-anā al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr /1/ al-mudhnib al-dhalīl al-

This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

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A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.586, Work on the dutiesof Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad with an account of his life

Title: al-Shifāʾ fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafá

Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201

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