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Title

Dalāʼil al-khayrāt.
[دلائل الخيرات]

Authors

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

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 261
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13556555
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1056194889
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_261.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13556555

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1850?

Place

Morocco ?

Summary

An illuminated copy of al-Jazūlī's classic work on the Prophet Muḥammad which has been partially vocalized. The flyleaves are inscribed in what appear to be two hands. The opening leaves include a Qur'anic passage, 18:107-110 (f.1r), followed by the Beautiful Names of God (al-asmāʼ al-husnā) (following 1v-2r). The closing leaves contain a supplication (duʻāʼ) on the repeated pattern of "yā [fāʻil] ghayr [mafʻūl]" (following 268v-269r) and a quatrain (f. 270r).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 7r).
   
• Written in brown-black, red, green, and yellow ink.
   

Extent

270 leaves : 193 x 158 (135 x 105) mm, bound to 195 x 160 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Islamic binding. Full brown leather (goatskin) with blind tooled lines and stamps, including central mandorla with remnants of leather or parchment onlay. Separate paper pastedowns. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing.

Layout

5 to 9 lines per page.

Decoration

Double-page illumination of the Prophet's Mosque and Tomb (f. 46v-47r) .Title illumination (f. 92r, 118r, 132v, 169v, 184r, 236r, 237r, 266v). Textblock border-ruled in double red. Rubrications in red, green, gold.

Script

Written in maghribī script; pointed and partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts
• Illuminations
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Prayers
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Secondary sewing (endband techniques)
• Pastedowns

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 4v — Dalāʼil al-khayrāt

Decorations

• fol. 46v — Full page illustration of Prophet's tomb.
• fol. 47r — Full page illustration of Prophet's mosque
• fol. 92v — Example of title decoration
• fol. 237r — Finispiece
• fol. 238r — Title decoration
• fol. 267v — Finispiece