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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, -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
• Waṣfī, Adʹham Nūrī, former owner
  وصفي، ادهم نوري.
• Nūrī, Muḥammad Shams al-Dīn Naqshband, former owner
  نوري، محمد شمس الدين نقشبند.
• Naẓīfī, Aḥmad, scribe
  نظيفي، احمد.

Call number

Lewis O 28
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2435298
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076361974
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2435298

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1131 (1719)

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. 3r).
   

Extent

104 leaves : 165 x 95 (105 x 60) mm bound to 167 x 110 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with gold tooled chessboard-design central panel and double frame. Flap has coordinating gold tooled frame and dots. Lime green paper pastedowns. Spine and foredge hinge are lighter brown leather.

Layout

11 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. First two openings (f. 1v-3r) have headpieces in gold, two shades of blue, pink and white with the text in cloudbands; textblock is border-ruled in double gold rules; punctuating the text are gold roundels with many different central designs in black surrounded by pink and blue dots. Two full-page illustrations, in perspective, of Mecca (f. 15v) and the Rawḍah in Medina (f. 16r) in polychrome water colors, framed in gold with pink floriated corners also appear. Colophon is written in cloudbands in a pink framed circular medallion set in a gold rectangle with fruit designs.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by al-Shaykh al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Shams al-Dīn Nūrī, a member of the Naqshband Sufi order (inscription on f. 104v).
   
• Formerly owned by Adʹham al-Waṣfī Nūrī (owner's stamp, f. 1r).
   
• 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)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Prayers (literary works)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• 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-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner's stamp
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece with cloudbands
• fol. 2r — Cloudbands
• fol. 2v — Illuminated headpiece with cloudbands
• fol. 3r — Cloudbands
• fol. 12v — Grid of octagons and squares with names of Prophet
• fol. 13r — Grid of octagons and squares with names of Prophet
• fol. 13v — Grid of octagons and squares with names of Prophet
• fol. 14r — Grid of octagons and squares with names of Prophet
• fol. 14v — Grid of octagons and squares with names of Prophet
• fol. 15r — Grid of octagons and squares with names of Prophet
• fol. 15v — Grid of octagons and squares with names of Prophet
• fol. 16r — Grid of octagons and squares with names of Prophet
• fol. 16v — Grid of octagons and squares with names of Prophet
• fol. 17r — Grid of octagons and squares with names of Prophet
• fol. 17v — Grid of octagons and squares with names of Prophet
• fol. 17v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 18r — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 18v — Polychrome illustration of Mecca
• fol. 19r — Polychrome illustration of the Rawḍah at Medina
• fol. 20v — Illuminated headpiece with cloudbands
• fol. 21r — Cloudbands
• fol. 30r — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 39r — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 40v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 45v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 51r — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 58v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 61v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 73v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 74v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 80v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 85r — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 96v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 101v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 104r — Illuminated colophon
• fol. 104v — Owner's stamp