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.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465.

Contributor:

• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Standardized Title:

• Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
• دلائل الخيرات http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2022034923

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

• 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.

Genre:

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

Penn Provenance:

• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).

Physical Description:

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

Production:

[Turkey?], A.H. 1182 (1768)

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

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.

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.

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 133.

OCLC:

1131863704