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and his two companions, Abu Bakr and 'Umar, may God be pleased with them." Comment: Provenance
Book plate: No. 1155 LG [Leon Gruel]
Acquisition
Acquired by Henry Walters from Leon Gruel, Paris (inv. no. 1155) [book plate]
Binding
The binding is original. Reddish-brown goatskin (with flap); central lobed medallion and four corner compartments with arabesque designs on a gold ground and decorative frames
Bibliography
Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (New York; KoĚˆln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 2:327; S2: 359.
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Form: Text page Label: Like many copies of this text, this manuscript includes additional devotional material, such as lists of the noble names accorded to the Prophet Muhammad. Comment: fol. 15b: Title: Right side of a double-page composition featuring the mosque compound in Medina with the tombs of Muhammad, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar Form: Illustration Label: This is the right side of a double-page composition featuring the mosque compound in Medina with the tombs of Muhammad, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar. The inscription on the two illustrations (fols. 15b-16a) reads: hādhihi ṣifat al-rawḍah al-mubārakah allatī dufina fīhā rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʿalayhi wasallama wa-ṣāḥibāhu Abu Bakr wa-ʿUmar raḍiya Allāh ʿanhumā. This inscription can be translated as, "This is the description [image] of the blessed garden in which is buried the Apostle [Prophet] of God, may God bless and save him, and his two companions, Abu Bakr and 'Umar, may God be pleased with them." Comment: fol. 16a: Title: Left side of a double-page composition featuring the mosque compound in Medina with the tombs of Muhammad, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar Form: Illustration Label: This is the left side of a double-page composition featuring the mosque compound in Medina with the tombs of Muhammad, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar. The inscription on the two illustrations (fols. 15b-16a) reads: hādhihi ṣifat al-rawḍah al-mubārakah allatī dufina fīhā rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʿalayhi wa-sallama wa-ṣāḥibāhu Abu Bakr wa-ʿUmar raḍiya Allāh ʿanhumā. This inscription can be translated as, "This is the description [image] of the blessed garden in which is buried the Apostle [Prophet] of God, may God bless and save him,
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Comments: Framing lines in red, black, and gold Dimensions
12.0 cm wide by 19.0 cm high
Written surface
6.0 cm wide by 12.0 cm high
Layout
Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 11 Framing lines in red, gold, and black
Contents
fols. 1b - 105b: Title: Dalāʾil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī alṣalāh ʿalá al-nabī al-mukhtār Incipit: Hand note: Written in Turkish naskh script in black ink with incidentals in red Decoration note: Illustrations (fols. 15b-16a); illuminated headpieces (fols. 1b and 17b); illuminated headings for prayers (fols. 11a, 36a, and 56a); gold disks with colored dots as verse markers
Decoration
fol. 1b: Title: Incipit page with illuminated headpiece Form: Incipit; headpiece Label: This opening page has an illuminated headpiece with polychrome floral design. There is also interlinear gilt decoration. Comment: fol. 11b: Title: Illuminated text page with the noble names accorded to the Prophet Muhammad Form: Text page Label: Like many copies of this text, this manuscript includes additional devotional material, such as lists of the noble names accorded to the Prophet Muhammad. Comment: fol. 12a: Title: Illuminated text page with the noble names accorded to the Prophet Muhammad
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Shelf mark
Walters Art Museum Ms. W.583
Descriptive Title
Collection of prayers for the Prophet Muhammad
Text title
Dalāʾil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī al-ṣalāh ʿalá alnabī al-mukhtār Vernacular:
Author
As-written name: Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī Supplied name: al-Jazūlī (d. 877 AH / 1472 CE) Name, in vernacular: Note: Author name supplied by cataloger
Abstract
This is an illuminated copy of the collection of prayers for the Prophet Muhammad entitled Dalāʾil al-khayrāt, composed by Muḥammad al-Jazūlī (d. 877 AH / 1472 CE). The text was written in black naskh script in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE in Ottoman Turkey. It contains two facing illustrations (fols. 15b-16a) featuring the mosque compound in Medina with the tombs of Muhammad, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar. The reddish-brown goatskin binding is decorated with a central lobed medallion and four corner compartments with arabesque designs on a gold ground and decorative frames.
Date
11th century AH / 17th CE
Origin
Turkey
Form
Book
Genre
Devotional
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Support material
Paper laid European paper
Extent
Foliation: 106
Collation
Catchwords: On versos, written obliquely outside the frame
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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.583, Collection of prayers for the Prophet Muhammad Title: Dalāʾil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī al-ṣalāh ʿalá al-nabī al-mukhtār
Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2011