This manuscript is a beautifully calligraphed and illuminated small codex containing the famous poem in honor of the prophet Muhammad, popularly known as Qaṣīdat al-Burdah ('The poem of the mantle'), composed by Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Būṣīrī (d. 694 AH / 1294 CE) and executed in a number of scripts, probably in Iran, by Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Dūst Muḥammad al-Khwārizmī in the 11th century AH / 17th CE.
