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Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār Manuscript
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Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī, a Moroccan Sufi and Islamic scholar who died in 1465, was best known for compiling the Dalāʼil al-khayrāt.
Manuscript copy of al-Jazūlī's famous collection of prayers and devotions to the Prophet Muḥammad. This copy includes three frontispieces in gold and colors, two painted miniatures, and nine leaves of prayer tables.
دلائل الخيرات و شوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار.
Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
دلائل الخيرات.
Title from introduction (f. [2]v).
Unfoliated, catchwords every verso, lower left.
9 long lines; frame-ruled. 9 leaves of prayer tables (f. 12r-16r).
Paper, 103. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Written in Naskh in black ink.
Gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces (f. 1v, 17v, and 18v). Border-rules and page-frame ruled in gold. Rubrications in red. Two full page illustrations in gold, red, and green of the Prophet Muhammad's mosque (f. 16v) and tomb (f. 17r).
Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1179 A.H. (1765 CE) by ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-shahīr bi-al-Libqī (f. [103]v).
Dark brown leather binding with medallions.
Purchased from Librarie Ancienne des Trois Islets, 2015.
Processed in 2021 by Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services.
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- Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
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- Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services
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- August 2023
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Open for research.
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