Walters Ms. W.583, Collection of prayers for the Prophet Muhammad

W.583

Collection of prayers for the Prophet Muhammad

Vernacular: دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الانوار في الصلاة على النبي المختار

As-written name: Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī

Supplied name: al-Jazūlī (d. 877 AH / 1472 CE)

Name, in vernacular: محمد بن سليمان الجزولي

Note: Author name supplied by cataloger

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.

11th century AH / 17th CE

Turkey

Book

Devotional

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

Paper

laid European paper

Foliation: 106

Catchwords: On versos, written obliquely outside the frame

Comments: Framing lines in red, black, and gold

12.0 cm wide by 19.0 cm high

6.0 cm wide by 12.0 cm high

1. Columns: 1
2. Ruled lines: 11
3. Framing lines in red, gold, and black

1. Title: Dalāʾil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī al-ṣalāh ʿalá al-nabī al-mukhtār
2. Author: Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī
3. Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هداينا للايمان والاسلام...
4. Hand note: Written in Turkish naskh script in black ink with incidentals in red
5. 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

Upper board outside:

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2. Title: Bookbinding
3. Form: Bookbinding
4. Label: The reddish-brown goat-skin leather binding is decorated with a central lobed medallion and four corner compartments with a stamped arabesque design on a gilt ground and decorative frames.

fol. 1b:

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2. Title: Incipit page with illuminated headpiece
3. Form: Incipit; headpiece
4. Label: This opening page has an illuminated headpiece with polychrome floral design. There is also interlinear gilt decoration.

fol. 11b:

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2. Title: Illuminated text page with the noble names accorded to the Prophet Muhammad
3. Form: Text page
4. 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.

fol. 12a:

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2. Title: Illuminated text page with the noble names accorded to the Prophet Muhammad
3. Form: Text page
4. 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.

fol. 15b:

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2. Title: Right side of a double-page composition featuring the mosque compound in Medina with the tombs of Muhammad, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar
3. Form: Illustration
4. 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 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, and his two companions, Abu Bakr and 'Umar, may God be pleased with them."

fol. 16a:

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2. Title: Left side of a double-page composition featuring the mosque compound in Medina with the tombs of Muhammad, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar
3. Form: Illustration
4. 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, and his two companions, Abu Bakr and 'Umar, may God be pleased with them."

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

Book plate: No. 1155 LG [Leon Gruel]

Acquired by Henry Walters from Leon Gruel, Paris (inv. no. 1155) [book plate]

Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (New York; Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 2:327; S2: 359.

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara

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