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Title

Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār.
دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلوة على النبي المختار

Authors

• Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465
  جزولي، محمد بن سليمان، -
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Ḥilmī, Aḥmad, scribe
  حلمي، احمد،

Call number

Lewis O 163
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2529126
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1141198704
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_163.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2529126

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1799?

Place

Qarah Ḥiṣārī

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. 5r).
   

Extent

Ii, 105, i leaves : 187 x 120 (111 x 56) mm bound to 185 x 120 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with gold tooled border and frame.

Layout

11 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Several headpieces in gold and colors (f. 1v, 4v, 14r, 20r, 39r) and a finispiece in gold with flowers (f. 103r); marginal decorations of polychrome bouquets (see f. 62r, for example); text dividers in gold and colors; two full-page illustrations of Mecca (f. 18v) and the Rawḍah in Medina (f. 19r) in polychrome water colors, framed in gold; rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in wide gold, black and red; gold roundels with various designs in black in the center punctuate the text.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Prayers
• Envelope flaps (features)

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

• Inside front cover — Identification of ms. in pencil in English
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 2v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 4v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 14r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 18v — Illustration: Mecca
• fol. 19r — Illustration: Medina
• fol. 19v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 20r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 30r — Illustration: Floral arrangement
• fol. 38v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 39r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 40r — Illustration: Floral arrangement
• fol. 45v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 51r — Illustration: Floral arrangement
• fol. 58v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 62r — Illustration: Floral arrangement
• fol. 74v — Illustration: Floral arrangement
• fol. 81v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 86r — Illustration: Floral arrangement
• fol. 97v — Illustration: Floral arrangement
• fol. 103r — Floral finispiece
• fol. 103v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 105v — Gold finispiece