Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1850
Place of publication: North Africa?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Devotional literature; Arabic Manuscripts; Pictorial works
Work titles: Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
Description: Copy of al-Jazūlī's famous prayer book. This copy includes extensive additions in the margins as well as some blank pages at the end which have been partially filled with other prayers.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from introduction to text (f. 8r).

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 13 long lines with extensive marginalia.

Script: Naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in red; red dots punctuate the text. Two full page illustrations in gold, red, and green of the the Rawḍah in Medina (f. 20v-21r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 117.

Origin: Likely copied in the second half of the 19th century, possibly in North Africa since the illustrations of the Rawḍa and the Minbar in Medina follow the pattern of illustration used there.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR.

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Green and black marbled paper over pasteboard.

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Table of contents: title: 1. f. 3r-6v: Biography of al-Jazūlī; title: 2. f. 6v-7v: Fāʼidah jalīlah; title: 3. f. 7v-88v: Dalāʼil al-khayrāt; title: 4. f. 88v-89v: [Various prayers]; title: 5. f. 90r-90v: [Prayers for the old and new year]; title: 6. f. 91r-92v: Border-rules with no text.