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Title

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

Authors

• Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
  جزولي، محمد بن سليمان،
• Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
  بوصيري، شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد،

Other related names

• Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1910
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977424453803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1066739247

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic with some marginalia in Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 1259 (1878)

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. This copy is preceded and followed by 91 lines from Būṣīrī's poem known as al-Burdah (f. 1v-5r, 126v-130v) copied in nastaʻliq. Includes a few marginal notes in Persian.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 6v).
   

Extent

130 leaves : 207 x 133 (130 x 66) mm bound to 207 x 133 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Lacquered red paper over pasteboard (Type III) with gilt paper inlays on a central medallion and two pendants on the vertical axis, with a blind stamped frame. The central medallion is embossed with the binder's name and a formula of humility: al-ʻabd al-ḥaqīr Hakīm Mullā Khawājah Saḥḥāf. Marbled paper doublure. Green leather spine.

Layout

11 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Polychrome headpieces in blue, yellow, gold, red, and green over text on first opening (f. 5v-6r); full page polychrome illustrations of the mosque at Mecca (f. 17v) and the Rawḍah at Medina (f.18r); textblock is gold sprinkled and bordered in blue, red, and gold rules; gold roundels punctuate text. Rubrications in red. Page-opening ruled in blue and gold.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized. Burdah selections in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr. (bookplate inside back cover), 1966.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• 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-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Decorations

• fol. 5v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 5v — Marginal medallion
• fol. 6r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 6r — Marginal medallion
• fol. 16v — Marginal medallion
• fol. 17v — Illustration of Mecca
• fol. 18r — Illustration of Medina
• fol. 21v — Table
• fol. 22r — Table
• fol. 22v — Table
• fol. 23r — Table
• fol. 23v — Table
• fol. 25r — Table
• fol. 25v — Table
• fol. 26r — Table
• fol. 26v — Table
• fol. 27r — Table
• fol. 27v — Table
• fol. 28r — Table
• fol. 28v — Table
• fol. 29v — Marginal medallion
• fol. 40v — Marginal medallion
• fol. 49v — Marginal medallion
• fol. 50v — Marginal medallion
• fol. 56r — Marginal medallion
• fol. 61v — Marginal medallion
• fol. 70r — Marginal medallion
• fol. 74r — Marginal medallion
• fol. 88r — Marginal medallion
• fol. 89v — Marginal medallion
• fol. 96v — Marginal medallion
• fol. 102r — Marginal medallion
• fol. 116r — Marginal medallion
• fol. 122v — Marginal medallion