Walters Ms. W.580, Work on the duties of Muslims toward the Prophet Muhammad with an account of his lifeKitāb al-Shifā fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafáكتاب الشفاء في تعريف حقوق المصطفى<note type="title" xml:id="n241.057451">Volume 3 (al-sifr al-thālith); the word al-thālith is written in gold on the tail of the codex</note>Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsá ibn ʿIyāḍ al-YaḥṣubīʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī (d. 544 AH / 1149 CE)ابو الفضل عياض بن موسى بن عياض اليحصبيAuthor name supplied by catalogerPrincipal catalogerGacek, AdamCatalogerLandau, AmyCatalogerSmith, SitaEditorBockrath, DianeContributorBarrera, ChristinaContributorEmery, DougContributorHerbert, LynleyContributorNoel, WilliamContributorSimpson, ShreveContributorTabritha, ArielContributorToth, Michael B.ContributorValle, ChiaraConservatorJewell, StephanieConservatorQuandt, AbigailThe Walters Art Museum

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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.BaltimoreThe Walters Art MuseumW.580The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.fols. 2a - 140aKitāb al-Shifā fī taʿrīf ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafáكتاب الشفاء في تعريف حقوق المصطفى<note type="title" xml:id="n241.057502">Volume 3 (al-sifr al-thālith); the word al-thālith is written in gold on the tail of the codex</note>القسم الثاني فيما يجب على الانام من حقوقه عليه الصلاة والسلام...

European laid paper

Foliation: 14127.020.018.513.0Text ends on fol. 140a

On versos of the first five folios of each quire

Written in Maghribī script in black ink with certain words highlighted in red and blueDouble-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 markersEighteenth-century reddish-brown goatskin bindingBindingThis 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.Illuminated incipit page with titlepieceIncipit; titlepieceThis 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.Right side of an illuminated double-page frontispieceFrontispieceThis 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.Left side of an illuminated double-page frontispieceFrontispieceThis 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.Illuminated incipit page with titlepieceIncipit; titlepieceThis illuminated incipit page includes a titlepiece framed by gold trefoils and vertical bars of gold strapwork, with a marginal rosette at the right.Illuminated explicit with tailpiece inscribed with a prayer for the Prophet MuhammadExplicit; tailpieceThis illuminated explicit contains a tailpiece inscribed with a prayer for the Prophet Muhammad (the ṣalwalah), with a palmette at the left.

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

12th century AH / 18th CEMaghrebOld shelfmark 195 or 295; see fol. 1a and tailWalters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequestRelevant WorksBrockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (New York; Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 1: 455; S1: 630.ArtMedicineMuseumPoetryScriptMuhammad, the ProphetRomaniaKashmiriHorsesWalters Art MuseumBlockbookDocumentGeneologyAstrologyDevotionHistoryLegalLiterature -- PoetryLiterature -- ProseLiturgyPhilosophyScienceScience -- MedicineScriptureSufismTheologyMineralogyLogicGeographyGeomancyCosmologyCartographyFortune-tellingKoranQur`anFirmanPalimpsestPrayerBibleGospelsPsalterMissalLectionaryBook of HoursAntiphonaryPrayerbookHomilaryProcessionalHorologionBreviaryHymnalChroniclePsalter/HoursMaghrebSub-Saharan (West) AfricaTurkeyAfghanistanCentral Arab Lands (Near East)Central AsiaEgyptEnglandIndiaIranIraqPakistanGermanyFranceAustriaNetherlandsEthiopiaArmeniaFlandersGreeceMamlukMughalOttomanOttonianArmenianByzantineAbbasidQajarRajputChristianArabicAustrianDutchEgyptianFatimidGermanIndianIslamicPersianSafavidTimuridTurkishUmayyadEnglishFrenchFlemishEthiopianCarolingianCalligraphyChartsColophonHeadpieceIlluminationIllustrationMedallionMiniatureOrnamentPainting'Kufic'Early Abbasid scriptRaginiRomanesqueGothicWatermarkTreasure BindingGrotesquesHistoriated initialInhabited initialCarolingian MinusculeGothic Book handWhite-vine letteringEnglish secretaryTexturaBatardaHumanisticUncialAccordion bookAlbumBookCodexManuscriptHeraldrySaint's LifeDrawingGrisailleOriginal BindingBindingNew Abbasid styleLiturgicalDevotionalScripturalTheologicalLegalHistoricalScientificScientific -- MedicalLiterary -- ProseLiterary -- PoetryPhilosophicalAstrologicalSufiEnglishArabicBookCodexIlluminationIslamicManuscriptPrayerWalters Art MuseumMaghrebOriginal Binding