Entre el arte y la devoción: estudio global del certificado de peregrinación islámica Add. MS 27566 (s. XV)

Abstract

In the year 836 AH (1432/33 AD), a woman named Maymu¯na bt. Muh. ammad `Abd Alla¯h al-Zarda¯l¯ made the pilgrimage to Mecca and visited the tomb of the Prophet Muh. ammad in Medina. As proof of compliance with this precept Maymu¯na acquired a luxurious certificate, now preserved in the British Library (London) with the inventory number Add.MS 27566. The scroll, reported for the first time by the French orientalist Jean Renaud (1828), has fifteen sections with colorful illustrations detailing the spaces and rituals of the Islamic pilgrimage. This article seeks to complete the preliminary description of this certificate and offers a global study of its iconographic and textual content. This includes the reading of decorative calligraphies and labels identifying the architectural elements represented in the certificate, absent in Renaud's work. The sharing of these elements suggest an underlying instructional function that will be analyzed in this article.