The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This manuscript is a copy of the poem in honor of the Prophet Muhammad known as Qaṣīdat al-burdah (The poem of the mantle) by Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Būṣīrī (d. 694 AH / 1294 CE), with an amplification (takhmīs) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Fayyūmī. The amplification and the text of the Qaṣīdat al-burdah were written in naskh and thuluth scripts respectively by Riḍwān ibn Muḥammad al-Tabīzī in 767 AH / 1366 CE, probably for the Mawlawī (Mevlevi) Library in Konya, Turkey.
Amplification text written in naskh script; text of poem written in thuluth script; colophon written in gold tawqī script
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabische Litteratur (New York; Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 1:312; S1:469.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Turkey
Jumādá II 767 AH / 1366 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Probably dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE; brownish-red leather (no flap); central lobed oval and pendants
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Made for the Mawlawi
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Turkey
Jumādá II 767 AH / 1366 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Made for the Mawlawi
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This manuscript is a copy of the poem in honor of the Prophet Muhammad known as Qaṣīdat al-burdah (The poem of the mantle) by Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Būṣīrī (d. 694 AH / 1294 CE), with an amplification (takhmīs) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Fayyūmī. The amplification and the text of the Qaṣīdat al-burdah were written in naskh and thuluth scripts respectively by Riḍwān ibn Muḥammad al-Tabīzī in 767 AH / 1366 CE, probably for the Mawlawī (Mevlevi) Library in Konya, Turkey.
Amplification text written in naskh script; text of poem written in thuluth script; colophon written in gold tawqī script
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabische Litteratur (New York; Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 1:312; S1:469.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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