Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār
Contributors: Shawqī, Ḥasan, active 1836, scribe; Khalīl al-Shākir Afandī, associated name; Saffron, Morris Harold, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1836
Place of publication: Yānīyah (Greece)
Language: ara
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Devotional literature; Islam; Prayers and devotions; Early works to 1800; Pictorial works; Arabic Manuscripts
Work titles: Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
Description: Illustrated copy of the popular prayer book.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 2r-2v).

Layout: 11 long lines; border-ruled; catchwords every verso, lower left; some leaves have a grid pattern (f. 11r-16v).

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: 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).

Origin: 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).

Shelfmark: MS Or 458.

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Gift of Morris H. Saffron (library bookplate inside front cover).

Arabic.

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.

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