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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، -
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Rifqī, Aḥmad, scribe
  رفقي، احمد.

Call number

Lewis O 26
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2435296
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076363074
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2435296

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1200 (1786)

Place

Turkey ;

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. 2v).
   
• Algerian customs stamp (flyleaf 1r).
   

Extent

94 leaves : 155 x 100 (95 x 53) mm bound to 154 x 100 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added, top left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in dark brown leather (Type III) with a stamped mandorla, two pendants along the vertical axis, and cornerpieces on front and back covers, each with a red paper gilt-stamped onlay and gold tooling; gold tooled frame. Inside covers are red leather with simple gold tooled design in the corners and the middle of each side.

Layout

11 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

First opening (f. 1v-2r) has headpiece in gold, blue, red, and white with the text in cloudbands; textblock is border-ruled in gold, red, blue with the page openings framed in gold and black; gold roundels punctuate the text. A second headpiece in gold and colors appears on f. 16v and two full-page illustrations, in perspective, of Mecca (f. 14v) and the Rawḍah in Medina (f. 15r) in polychrome water colors and framed in gold also appear.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Prayers (literary works)
• Devotional literature
• Early works
• Pictorial works
• Prayers and devotions

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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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. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 10v — Illuminated band
• fol. 14v — Illustration of Mecca
• fol. 15r — Illustration of Medina
• fol. 16v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 26r — Illuminated band
• fol. 26r — Medallion
• fol. 34r — Illuminated band
• fol. 35r — Medallion
• fol. 40r — Illuminated band
• fol. 44v — Medallion
• fol. 46v — Illuminated band
• fol. 51v — Illuminated band
• fol. 54v — Illuminated band
• fol. 54v — Medallion
• fol. 65v — Illuminated band
• fol. 67r — Illuminated band
• fol. 72r — Illuminated band
• fol. 76r — Illuminated band
• fol. 76r — Medallion
• fol. 86v — Illuminated band
• fol. 86v — Medallion
• fol. 91r — Illuminated band
• fol. 93v — Illuminated finispiece