Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār ...
Contributors: Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1650
Language: ara
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Devotional literature; Islam; Prayers and devotions; Early works to 1800; Pictorial works; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: Ḥizb al-murḍī.; al-Ṣalāh al-mansūbah ilá al-Shaykh al-Būṣīrī.
Work titles: Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
Description: This is a collection of four works bound together, with Dalāʼil al-khayrāt as the longest text. There are several different types of paper present in the volume with a few blank pages around each text.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction to main text (f. 13r).

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Unnumbered leaf after f. 49 and f. 128.

Layout: 9-11 lines, some pages line-ruled; border-ruled.

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

Decoration: The decorations are not uniform across all four works, though all are border-ruled and all have rubrications in red. Work 1: Border-ruled in gold and black; headers set off by rules and gold roundels with red dots; the same roundels punctuate the text (f. 1v-6r). Work 2: Border-ruled in double red and blue ( f. 8r-10v). Work 3: Dual page illuminated opening (f. 11v-12r) with headpiece in gold, blue, red, black with marginal in-fill of a foliate design in gold; a portion of the fore-edge margin has been repaired and filled with a slightly different pattern in a darker ink. The textblock has double gold rules, the page opening framed by a gold rule and lines are divided by gold rules above and below each line. Text is written on gold-sprinkled background between the rules; gold roundels with blue outlining dots and a central red dot punctuate the text. Painting depicting the Rawḍah at Medina covering the full page-opening, wide yellow frame, of polychrome [pink, blue, yellow, green, red] and gold (f. 29v-30r). Work 4: Border-ruled in double red and blue (f. 138r-151v).

Origin: None of the works are dated; probably completed sometime between the mid-17th and the mid-19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 217.

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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.

Bound in red leather with flap. Outside covers have asymmetrically placed gilded paper onlays for a central mandorla, two oval pendants on the vertical axis and two smaller square pendants on the horizontal axis and cornerpieces. Flap has matching onlay. Blind ruled frame. Inside covers have paper doublure with gold painted grid in diaper pattern of repeating squares and octagons. Green textile flap hinge doublure.

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Table of contents: title: 1. f. 1v-6r: Hādhā kitāb ḥizb al-murḍī; title: 2. f. 8r-10v: [Prayer]; title: 3. f. 11v-137v: Dalāʼil al-khayrāt / Jazūlī; title: 4 f. 138r-151v: Hādhihi al-Ṣalāh al-mansūbah ilá al-Shaykh al-Būṣīrī / Būṣīrī.