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

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465.

Contributor:

Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973, former owner.

بوصيري، شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد، 1213؟ -1296؟

Standardized Title:

Dalāʼil al-khayrāt.

دلائل الخيرات.

Language:

Arabic

Persian

Subjects (All):

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Devotional literature.

Muḥammad.

Islam--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800.

Islam.

Prayer--Islam--Early works to 1800.

Prayer.

Mecca (Saudi Arabia)--Pictorial works.

Mecca (Saudi Arabia).

Medina (Saudi Arabia)--Pictorial works.

Medina (Saudi Arabia).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

miniatures (paintings)

prayers (compositions)

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr. (bookplate inside back cover), 1966.

Physical Description:

130 leaves : paper, illustrations, illuminations ; 207 x 133 (130 x 66) mm bound to 207 x 133 mm.

Place of Publication:

A.H. 1259 (1878)

Language Note:

Arabic with some marginalia in Persian.

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. This copy is preceded and followed by 91 lines from Būṣīrī's poem known as al-Burdah (f. 1v-5r, 126v-130v) copied in nastaʻliq. Includes a few marginal notes in Persian.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from introduction (f. 6v).

Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on every verso, lower left.

Layout: 11 long lines, border-ruled.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized. Burdah selections in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Polychrome headpieces in blue, yellow, gold, red, and green over text on first opening (f. 5v-6r); full page polychrome illustrations of the mosque at Mecca (f. 17v) and the Rawḍah at Medina (f.18r); textblock is gold sprinkled and bordered in blue, red, and gold rules; gold roundels punctuate text. Rubrications in red. Page-opening ruled in blue and gold.

Binding: Lacquered red paper over pasteboard (Type III) with gilt paper inlays on a central medallion and two pendants on the vertical axis, with a blind stamped frame. The central medallion is embossed with the binder's name and a formula of humility: al-ʻabd al-ḥaqīr Hakīm Mullā Khawājah Saḥḥāf. Marbled paper doublure. Green leather spine.

Origin: Copied in 1295 A.H. (1878) (f. 126r).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1910.

Contains:

Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296? Burdah, Selections.

بوصيري، شرف الدين محمد بن سعيد، 1213؟ -1296؟ بردة، Selections.

OCLC:

1066739247

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