Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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،

Other related names

• Ḥasan Niyāzī Afandīʹzādah Muḥammad Amīn Ḥilmī, scribe
  حسن نيازي افندي‌زاده محمد امين حلمي
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 229
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13673610
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080351957
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_229.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13673610

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic with a few pages in Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

1835 or 1836

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Ottoman copy of Dalāʼil al-khayrāt with two full-page color illustrations and several decorative panels. Last three pages in Ottoman Turkish. The final two pages are in a different hand and discuss the practice of sacrificing a lamb on a specific day after a child is born.

Notes

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

Extent

87 leaves : 178 x 115 (108 x 60) mm, bound to 178 x 115 mm

Support

Laid paper with watermark

Binding

Red-brown leather with flap; gilded (though now greenish) paper onlay mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces with gold tooled, ropework design frame. Flap has coordinating paper onlays and frame. Doublure of pink paper with small painted black and white circles made of dots. Endpapers are gold flecked green paper.

Layout

13 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Gold and polychrome headpieces; the first in pink, blue, purple (f. 1v), the second in beige orange, blue (f. 15r). Gold and polychrome text divisions panels (f. 9r, 12r, 14r, 14v, 21r, 22v, 30r, 31r, 35r, 39v, 45v, 48r, 59r, 60r, 64v, 69r, 78v, 83r, 85r, 85v). Full page polychrome (white, blue, pink, red/orange tones with highlights in gold) illustrations of Mecca and Medina (f. 12v-13r). In the image of Medina, 5 tombs are represented (the three usual ones and two others in a square below). Textblock is border ruled in wide gold, narrow blue and red. Text is punctuated throughout by gold roundels with white centers, edged with four orange and blue dots. Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Codices
• Prayers
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Illuminations
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Onlays (decoration)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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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. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 9r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 12r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 12v — Full page illustration of the mosque at Mecca
• fol. 13r — Full page illustration of the Rawḍah at Medina
• fol. 14r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 14v — Illuminated panel
• fol. 15r — Polychrome headpiece
• fol. 21r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 22v — Illuminated panel
• fol. 30r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 31r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 35r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 39v — Illuminated panel
• fol. 45v — Illuminated panel
• fol. 48r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 59r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 60r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 64v — Illuminated panel
• fol. 69r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 78v — Illuminated panel
• fol. 83r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 85r — Illuminated panel
• fol. 85v — Illuminated panel