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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.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465.
- Standardized Title:
- Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
- دلائل الخيرات http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2022034923
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632.
- Islam--Prayers and devotions.
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Devotional literature--Early works to 1800.
- Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800.
- Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800.
- Prayer--Islam.
- Mecca (Saudi Arabia)--Pictorial works.
- Medina (Saudi Arabia)--Pictorial works.
- Islam.
- Saudi Arabia--Mecca.
- Genre:
- Devotional literature.
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- Prayers (literary works)
- Early works.
- Pictorial works.
- Prayers and devotions.
- Prayers.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Count Alexis Golovkin.
- Formerly owned by Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford.
- Sold at auction by R.H. Evans as part of the North collection, Part 3 of the sale, 28 Feb. 1829, to the bookseller John Cochran.
- Appears in a John Cochran catalog (1829), no. 429.
- Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 6365 (spine label, number on lower endleaf in pencil).
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's in a sale of Phillipps manuscripts, 25 Nov. 1968, lot 242.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Physical Description:
- 92 leaves : paper, illustrations, illuminations ; 155 x 95 (108 x 56) mm bound to 160 x 110 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Turkey?], [between 1600 and 1799?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- 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. Fragile: oxidation along the fillet borders weakens the paper so it tears easily.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from introduction (f. 2r).
- Collation: Paper, i + 92 + i. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
- Layout: 11 long lines; border-ruled; frame-ruled.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
- Decoration: Full-page illustrations of the mosque at Mecca (f. 16v) and the Rawḍah at Medina (f. 17r); 2 large gilt headpieces (f. 1v, 17v) and 11 smaller ones (f. 10v, 11v, 26r, 33v, 34v, 39r, 44r, 51r, 66v, 71r, 89v); text divisions noted in the margins in red ink; text block border ruled in gold and red, page opening framed in gold rules; gilt roundels punctuate the text throughout.
- Binding: Later red morocco, gilt-tooled diamond shape with double frame; gilded edges.
- Origin: Item is undated, but likely copied in the 17th or 18th century, perhaps in Turkey.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 39.
- OCLC:
- 808634295
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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