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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, 1404-1465
  جزولي، محمد بن سليمان،

Other related names

• Khvājahʹzādah, Muḥammad, scribe
  خواجه‌زاده، محمد.
• Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1905
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977406945903681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1061859637

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1078 (1667)

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).
   
• Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
   
• Formerly housed in a box labeled "Dilāyil-Khayrāt MS. 1178 A.H." with a note taped over it saying "This date is not correct. The correct date is 1078".
   

Extent

103 leaves : 167 x 109 (111 x 59) mm bound to 166 x 114 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish brown leather with flap (Type II); blind stamped and gilded mandorla with two pendants and cornerpieces on front and back covers; stamped and gilded pendant and cornerpieces on flap. Inside covers and flap have brown leather doublure with gold tooled pattern reflecting the pattern on the outside covers. Bright green embossed endpapers and green textile hinges. Gilded edges.

Layout

11 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Gilt headpiece on first page of text (f. 2v) with text in cloudbands (f. 2v-3r); full page illustrations of the mosque at Mecca (f. 14v) and the Rawḍah at Medina (f.15r); textblock bordered-ruled in gold, black, red; gold roundels with pink and blue dots punctuate text. Several polychrome and gold headers divide the text into sections. Second polychrome and gold headpiece with text on cloudbands (f. 16v-17r).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr., 1966.
   

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

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Inscription
• fol. 2v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 3r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 11r — Illuminated header; grid layout
• fol. 11v — Grid layout
• fol. 12r — Grid layout
• fol. 12v — Grid layout
• fol. 13r — Grid layout
• fol. 13v — Grid layout
• fol. 14v — Illustration of Mecca.
• fol. 15r — Illustration of the Rawḍah at Medina.
• fol. 16v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 17r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 24r — Illuminated divider
• fol. 25v — Illuminated divider
• fol. 34r — Illuminated divider
• fol. 35r — Illuminated divider
• fol. 40v — Illuminated divider
• fol. 46r — Illuminated divider
• fol. 48v — Illuminated divider
• fol. 54r — Illuminated divider
• fol. 57v — Illuminated divider
• fol. 70r — Illuminated divider
• fol. 71r — Illuminated divider
• fol. 77r — Illuminated divider
• fol. 81v — Illuminated divider
• fol. 94r — Illuminated divider
• fol. 99r — Gold finispiece
• fol. 99v — Illuminated divider
• fol. 102r — Illuminated corner fill
• fol. 102v — Gold finispiece
• fol. 103r — Empty frame with gold corner fill