[Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār ... etc] / [دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار … الخ]
Layout: Leaves 2-143: 9 long lines, gilt border rule around textblock and single-line red border rule around page margins Layout: Leaf 144: 18 long lines, no border rule Layout: Leaves 145-156: 8-15 long lines, no border rule Script: Naskh and nasti'liq script. Decoration: Illuminated headpieces (gold, shades of pastel pink and blue with white, red, and blue accents) at opening of each of several sections. Paintings with depictions in perspective of al-Masjid al-Ḥarām in Mecca on leaf 31v and Prophet’s mosque (al-Masjid al-Nabawī) in Medina on leaf 32r Binding: Ottoman stamped leather binding (type II, with flap) — pasteboards covered in red-brown leather, stamped with central scalloped mandorla with pendants and corner pieces, gold painted Leaves 1 and 2 glued together; some obscured text [manuscript waste?] visible on leaf 1v. Provenance: No colophon apparent in photos provided. Hand, decoration, etc suggest mid to late 18c Ottoman production. Provenance: Manuscript inscriptions in ink on flyleaves and leaf 1r, some illegible; "lot 8" visible in pencil on front flyleaf Illuminated compendium of prayers in Arabic and Turkish including al-Jazūlī's (d.1465) Dalāʼil al-khayrāt — a litany of blessings over the Prophet Muḥammad. Opens with Turkish introduction, followed by prayer to open the prayers of Dalāʼil al-khayrāt, then opening of Dalāʼil al-khayrāt. Numerous prayer excerpts (some of them identified by title and / or by purpose eg warding off illness) in at least three different hands on endpapers and on otherwise blank folios at close of volume, continuing onto back flyleaf. In one of the same hands, occasional marginalia with excerpts in Arabic and Turkish. Other marginalia from standard commentaries (such as that of al-Fāsī d.1698) accompany the text of Dalāʼil al-khayrāt References: Göloğlu, Sabiha. “Depicting the Islamic Pilgrimage Sites: Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem in Late Ottoman Illustrated Prayer Books,” in Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Turkish Art, Naples, 14–16 September 2015, edited by Michele Bernardini, Alessandro Taddei and Michael Douglas Sheridan (Ankara: Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 2018): 323–338 Göloğlu, Sabiha. “Touching Mecca & Medina: The Dalā’il al-Khayrāt and Devotional Practices,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 28 August 2020;Göloğlu, Sabiha. “In Writing and in Sound: The Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt in the Late Ottoman Empire.” Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 12, 3-4 (2021): 433–474
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