Selection of Hadiths (Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad)

Object Details

• Description

  Manuscript; Selection of Hadiths (Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad); Arabic in black, red, and gold naskh and thuluth script with gold rosette verse markers; vocalized in black with red letters for recitation and reading; 35 folios with one illuminated frontispiece (folio 2 recto); 4 interleaves between fols.3-4, fols. 6-7 and fols. 9-10; interlinear and marginal notes; colophon (folio 35 verso); standard page, one column, 7 lines of text.

  Binding: The manuscript is bound in cardboard with doublures of paper.

• Inscriptions

  On doublures written with pencil in English: "Arabic, written between the year 600 and 700 of the Hijra period, for the Sultan of Hamma (?) - Isma'il Abu'l-Fida, C.L.F."

• Provenance

  To 1908

  M. Baroody, Beirut, to 1908 [1]

  From 1908 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from M. Baroody in 1908 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See List of Persian Miniatures and Manuscripts, R. List Baroody A, pg. 105, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  M. Baroody (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Probably Egypt

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Baroody, M.

• Place

  Egypt

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Mamluk period (1250 - 1517), Arts of the Islamic World, Illumination

• Culture

  Muslims

• Language

  Naskh script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts