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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
• Brewer, Luther A, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Ibn Rasūl, Maḥmūd al-Kurdī, scribe
  ابن رسول، محمود الكردي.
• Anderson Galleries, Inc, auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 27
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2435297
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076362880
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2435297

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1196 (1782)

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).
   
• Note pasted onto the back inside cover in French describes and attempts to identify the text based on d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale.
   
• Title written on top edge.
   

Extent

97 leaves : 160 x 100 (106 x 60) mm bound to 160 x 110 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in dark brown leather with flap (Type II) with stamped mandorlas on front, back, and flap with embossed paper onlay; blind stamped frame.

Layout

11 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

First opening (f. 1v-2r) has headpiece in gold with the text in cloudbands; textblock is border-ruled in black, gold, red; gold roundels punctuate the text. A second headpiece in gold, red, and blue with a framed page opening appears on f. 15v-16r; full-page gold, red, and blue schematic illustrations of the Prophet's tomb (f. 13v) and minbar (f. 14r) in Medina also appear with gold and red border-rules.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by Luther A. Brewer of Cedar Rapids, IA (bookplate f. 97v).
   
• Sold by Anderson Galleries on August 24, 1903?, lot 35 (catalog entry pasted onto the flap, date and cost added in pen).
   
• 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

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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 — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 13v — Illustration of Prophet's tomb
• fol. 14r — Illustration of Prophet's mosque
• fol. 15v — Illuminated headpiece