This manuscript is a copy of the poem in honor of the Prophet Muhammad, which is popularly known as <em>Qaṣīdat al-burdah</em> (The poem of the mantle). It was written by Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Būṣīrī (died 694 AH [1294 AD]). The poem has a <em>takhmīs</em> (amplification, or expansion of the poem) by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Fayyūmī. The amplification and the text of the <em>Qaṣīdat al-burdah</em> were written in Naskh and Thuluth scripts respectively by Riḍwān ibn Muḥammad al-Tabīzī in 767 AH (1366 AD), probably for the Mawlawī (Mevlevi) Library in Konya, Turkey. The manuscript is written in a single column of 12 lines, with catchwords outside of the text frame added by a later hand. The illuminated title page includes a patronage statement. The manuscript is from the Walters Art Museum and is designated Walters W. 581.
<br>Arabic calligraphy; Arabic poetry; Illuminations; Islamic calligraphy; Islamic manuscripts; Muḥammad, Prophet, died 632; Poetry
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd (1212-1294)
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