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Title

Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalawāt ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.
دلائل الخيرات و شوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلوات على النبي المختار

Authors

• Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
  جزولي، محمد بن سليمان،

Other related names

• ʻAshāfī, Ḥāfiẓ Muṣṭafá al-Nāfawī, scribe
  عشافي، حافظ مصطفى النافوي.

Call number

Ms. Codex 1894
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977325732203681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1059578344

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1204 (1789)

Summary

Collection of prayers for the Prophet Muḥammad and other devotional materials such as a description of his tomb and lists of his names and honorary epithets, divided into 60 sections to be read daily over 2 months.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 2r).
   

Extent

124 leaves : 185 x 120 (115 x 62) mm bound to 187 x 130 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; some inaccuracies in foliation (number 11 repeated, unnumbered folios between f. 14-15, f. 34-35); catchwords on every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red morocco binding with flap (Type II); mandorla with two pendants and cornerpieces of gilt paper onlay with stamped frame on front and back covers; pendant and cornerpieces with onlay on flap.

Layout

9 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Gilt headpiece on first page of text (f. 1v) with text in cloudbands; full page illustrations of the mosque at Mecca (f. 16v) and the Rawḍah at Medina (f.17r); textblock bordered in gold and black rules; gold roundels punctuate text.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Roseberys (London) as part of the Islamic and Indian Art sale, 23 April 2018, lot 103.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Prayers (literary works)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalawāt ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Decorations

• fol. 16v — Illustration of Mecca
• fol. 17r — Illustration of Medina