Description of Columbia University MS Or 458: Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār.

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Illustrated copy of the popular prayer book.

Arabic Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār. دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465 جزولي، محمد بن سليمان، scribe Shawqī, Ḥasan, active 1836 شوقي، حسن، associated name Khalīl al-Shākir Afandī خليل الشاكر افندى، former owner Saffron, Morris Harold 1v Dalāʼil al-khayrāt washawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār

laid paper

i, 103, i leaves : 176 x 113 (103 x 60) mm, bound to 165 x 115 x 20 mm 11 long lines; border-ruled; catchwords every verso, lower left; some leaves have a grid pattern (f. 11r-16v). Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Polychrome and gold illuminated headpieces (f. 1v, 20v), will gold, foliate marginal fill on the page-opening and the text on cloudbands (f. 1v-2r, 20v-21r); double-page illustration of Mecca and Medina in perspective (f. 18v-19r); numerous polychrome and gold text dividers; marginal medallions in polychrome and gold; gold roundels with red and blue dots puncuate the text; textblock border-ruled in double gold, black and red with page-opening frame-ruled in blue; finispiece in bright blue with floral design (f. 98r); colophon surround of polychrome flowers on a gold field (f. 101r). Library bookplate Library donor plate Illuminated headpiece Foliate marginal fill Cloudbands Foliate marginal fill Cloudbands Table Illuminated text divider Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Table Illuminated text divider Illuminated finispiece Painting of Mecca Painting of Medina Illuminated text divider Illuminated header Illuminated headpiece Foliate marginal fill Cloudbands Foliate marginal fill Cloudbands Illuminated text divider Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated finispiece Illuminated text divider Marginal medallion Illuminated corner fill Illuminated finispiece

Dark reddish-brown leather with envelope flap, gold stamped in a two-register design of a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces surrounded by a frame itself surrounded by a set of gold cartouches and another, outside frame; matching pendant, cornerpieces and frame on the flap; marbled paper doublure and endleaves.

Copy completed on 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1251 AH by Ḥasan al-Shawqī, a student of his father and teacher Khalīl al-Shākir Afandī, the muezzin for the Mosque of Arslan Pasha, which is built into the citadel of the town of Yānīyah (Ioannina, Greece) (f. 101r).

1836 Yānīyah (Greece) Gift of Morris H. Saffron (library bookplate inside front cover). Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents) Illuminations (painting) Miniatures (paintings) Tables (documents) Envelope flaps (features) Onlays (decorative components) Early works