Description of Columbia University. MS Or 217: Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār ... .

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This is a collection of four works bound together, with Dalāʼil al-khayrāt as the longest text. There are several different types of paper present in the volume with a few blank pages around each text.

Arabic Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār ... . دلائل الخيرات و شوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465 جزولي، محمد بن سليمان، Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296 بوصيري، شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد، former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v Ḥizb al-murḍī 8r [Prayer]. 11v Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt 138r Hādhihi al-Ṣalāh al-mansūbah ilá al-Shaykh al-Būṣīrī.

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156 leaves : 160 x 100 (112 x 58) mm, bound to 160 x 105 x 20 mm Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Unnumbered leaf after f. 49 and f. 128. 9-11 lines, some pages line-ruled; border-ruled. Written in naskh in black ink; several different hands; pointed, vocalized. The decorations are not uniform across all four works, though all are border-ruled and all have rubrications in red. Work 1: Border-ruled in gold and black; headers set off by rules and gold roundels with red dots; the same roundels punctuate the text (f. 1v-6r). Work 2: Border-ruled in double red and blue ( f. 8r-10v). Work 3: Dual page illuminated opening (f. 11v-12r) with headpiece in gold, blue, red, black with marginal in-fill of a foliate design in gold; a portion of the fore-edge margin has been repaired and filled with a slightly different pattern in a darker ink. The textblock has double gold rules, the page opening framed by a gold rule and lines are divided by gold rules above and below each line. Text is written on gold-sprinkled background between the rules; gold roundels with blue outlining dots and a central red dot punctuate the text. Painting depicting the Rawḍah at Medina covering the full page-opening, wide yellow frame, of polychrome [pink, blue, yellow, green, red] and gold (f. 29v-30r). Work 4: Border-ruled in double red and blue (f. 138r-151v). Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Full page-opening illustration of the Rawḍah at Medina. Full page-opening illustration of the Rawḍah at Medina.

Bound in red leather with flap. Outside covers have asymmetrically placed gilded paper onlays for a central mandorla, two oval pendants on the vertical axis and two smaller square pendants on the horizontal axis and cornerpieces. Flap has matching onlay. Blind ruled frame. Inside covers have paper doublure with gold painted grid in diaper pattern of repeating squares and octagons. Green textile flap hinge doublure.

None of the works are dated; probably completed sometime between the mid-17th and the mid-19th century.

between 1650 and 1850? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic Codices Prayers Islamic bindings (Binding) Envelope flaps (features) Pastedowns Blind tooled (decoration) Onlays Manuscripts Early works to 1800