Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār
Contributors: Ḥasan Niyāzī Afandīʹzādah Muḥammad Amīn Ḥilmī, scribe; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1835
Place of publication: [Turkey?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Devotional literature; Early works to 1800; Islam; Prayers and devotions; Prayer; Pictorial works; Arabic Manuscripts
Work titles: Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
Description: Ottoman copy of Dalāʼil al-khayrāt with two full-page color illustrations and several decorative panels. Last three pages in Ottoman Turkish. The final two pages are in a different hand and discuss the practice of sacrificing a lamb on a specific day after a child is born.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction (f. 2r).

Layout: 13 long lines, border-ruled.

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

Decoration: Gold and polychrome headpieces; the first in pink, blue, purple (f. 1v), the second in beige orange, blue (f. 15r). Gold and polychrome text divisions panels (f. 9r, 12r, 14r, 14v, 21r, 22v, 30r, 31r, 35r, 39v, 45v, 48r, 59r, 60r, 64v, 69r, 78v, 83r, 85r, 85v). Full page polychrome (white, blue, pink, red/orange tones with highlights in gold) illustrations of Mecca and Medina (f. 12v-13r). In the image of Medina, 5 tombs are represented (the three usual ones and two others in a square below). Textblock is border ruled in wide gold, narrow blue and red. Text is punctuated throughout by gold roundels with white centers, edged with four orange and blue dots. Rubrications in red.

Shelfmark: MS Or 229.

Origin: Copy completed in 1251 AH by Ḥasan Niyāzī Afandīʹzādah Muḥammad Amīn Ḥilmī, a student of ʻAlī ʻUlawī (f. 85v).

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic with a few pages in Ottoman Turkish.

Red-brown leather with flap; gilded (though now greenish) paper onlay mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces with gold tooled, ropework design frame. Flap has coordinating paper onlays and frame. Doublure of pink paper with small painted black and white circles made of dots. Endpapers are gold flecked green paper.

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