[Dalāʼil al-khayrāt]
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Morocco ?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Islam; Early works to 1800; Prayers and devotions; Arabic Manuscripts
Description: An illuminated copy of al-Jazūlī's classic work on the Prophet Muḥammad which has been partially vocalized. The flyleaves are inscribed in what appear to be two hands. The opening leaves include a Qur'anic passage, 18:107-110 (f.1r), followed by the Beautiful Names of God (al-asmāʼ al-husnā) (following 1v-2r). The closing leaves contain a supplication (duʻāʼ) on the repeated pattern of "yā [fāʻil] ghayr [mafʻūl]" (following 268v-269r) and a quatrain (f. 270r).
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 7r).

Layout: 5 to 9 lines per page.

Script: Written in maghribī script; pointed and partially vocalized.

Decoration: Double-page illumination of the Prophet's Mosque and Tomb (f. 46v-47r) .Title illumination (f. 92r, 118r, 132v, 169v, 184r, 236r, 237r, 266v). Textblock border-ruled in double red. Rubrications in red, green, gold.

Shelfmark: MS Or 261.

Written in brown-black, red, green, and yellow ink.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Arabic.

Binding: Islamic binding. Full brown leather (goatskin) with blind tooled lines and stamps, including central mandorla with remnants of leather or parchment onlay. Separate paper pastedowns. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing.

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