Item Summary

A treatise on the birth of the Prophet Muḥammad, including descriptions of the appropriate rituals to be performed for its observation.

Descriptive Information

Title
هاذا كتاب مولد النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم المسمى بمولد الجوزي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā kitāb Mawlid al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam al-musammá bi-Mawlid al-Jawzī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 209
Identifier
ark:/88435/3484zp37t
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1882
Format
Manuscript
Extent
[88] p. (13-14 lines), bound ; 24 cm.
Provenance
AM 1993-12.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Published under the title Mawlid al-ʻarūs (Damascus: Maktabat al-Fatḥ).
On p. 2 of cover and p. 4 of free end paper: Ibn al-Jawzī. Mawlid al-Nabī.
At bottom of title page: Hādhā kitāb Fāṭimah raḍiya Allāh ʻanhā. Āmīn.
On p. 1 of free endpaper is an inscription of ownership by Muḥammad Bāqir ʻAlwān dated 1972.
Copyist identified in colophon as Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khurayṭalī (?).
Ms. in naskh on unglazed paper. 23.6 x 17 cm. Headings, keywords and punctuation in red ink. Catchwords; text fully vocalized. Many textual emendations. Illustration at foot of p. 19; text followed by a device containing the name Allah followed by the names of the Prophet and the four caliphs.
Paper is unglazed laid stock bearing watermark reading: FF PALAZZUOLI. Some stains and smudges. Water stain along top edge and upper outside corner. Some hinges broken.
Binding is recent. Half cloth; spine brown cloth, covers glossy blue paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography
Mawlid al-Nabī

Physical Characteristics

File Count
96

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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