Illuminated Manuscript Poem in Honor of the Prophet Muhammad, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.581, fol.11b

A calligraphic 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. It was executed in thuluth and naskh scripts by Riḍwān ibn Muḥammad al-Tabīzī in 767 AH / 1366 CE for the library of the then Shaykh al-Islam.