This is an illuminated copy of the famous poem in honor of the Prophet Muhammad, popularly known as Qaṣīdat al-burdah (Poem of the mantle), composed by Sharaf al-DÄ«n Muḥammad al-BūṣīrÄ« (d. 694 AH / 1294 CE). The text was written in a variety of scripts in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. According to the colophon, written in riqÄÊ¿ script, it was executed by ḤabÄ«b AllÄh ibn DÅ«st Muḥammad al-KhwÄrizmÄ«. The text of the poem begins on fol. 5b. Each page has borders of various colors with illuminated floral and geometric motifs. The borders and brown leather binding date to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE.
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