Amplified Poem in Honor of the Prophet Muhammad

Description Walters manuscript W.581 is a copy of the poem in honor of the Prophet Muhammad known as Qasidat al-burdah (The poem of the mantle) by Sharaf al-Din Muhammad al-Busiri (died 694 AH/AD 1294), with an amplification (takhmis) by Nasir al-Din Muhammad al-Fayyumi. The amplification and the text of the Qasidat al-burdah were written in Naskh and Thuluth scripts respectively by Ridwan ibn Muhammad al-Tabizi in 767 AH/AD 1366, probably for the Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library in Konya, Turkey.

Exhibitions

• Speaking the Word of God: Illuminated Korans from the Walters Art Museum. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2007.

Provenance Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library, Konya, Turkey (?), 767 AH/AD 1366 [mode of acquisition unknown] [bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-'Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah… (fol.1a)]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters