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

Name:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1768

Description:

Copy of the popular prayer book; the dual-page illuminated opening has headings as if for a Qurʼān (f. 1v-2r), but the text is Dalāʼil al-khayrāt.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).; Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms133.html

Subject:

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632; Devotional literature; Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 Devotional literature Early works to 1800; Islam -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800; Islam -- Prayers and devotions

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 18th century; codices (bound manuscripts); prayers (compositions); Islamic bindings (Binding)

Physical Description:

ii, 87, i leaves : paper; 150 x 95 (90 x 50) mm bound to 150 x 100 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from introduction (f. 2v).; Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto; catchwords every verso lower left.; Layout: Written in 11 long lines.; Script: Written in revival naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.; Decoration: Dual-page illuminated first opening in gold with orange and pink flowers (f. 1v-2r); textblock border-ruled in gold; wide gold rules across the full page opening, or framing one side of a page-opening appear throughout the text, but not in the same pattern on each page; gold roundels with blue and orange dots punctuate the text; floral marginal medallions in blue and orange (f. 18v, for example); some pages are silver sprinkled; rubrications in red.; Binding: Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); embossed paper onlays of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; blind-tooled frame and lines connecting mandorla to frame; gilt-stamped floral medallion on flap.; Origin: The copy was completed in the middle of Shaʻbān 1182 A.H. (December 1768); the scribe is not named.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 133