Item Summary

A collection containing works on reading the Qurʼan, the duties of Muslims, and Sufism. Following the main texts are notes, extracts, traditions, prayers and sermonettes (fol. 109b-204b).

Descriptive Information

Title
دلائل الخيرات وسائر الدعوات.
Transliterated Title
Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-sāʼir al-daʻwāt.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1112H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9s161j89b
Publisher
[18th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
205 leaves : paper ; 170 x 115 (125-135 x 70-75) mm bound to 168 x 118 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muṣṭafá (fol. [xiii]b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2046.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-29b: Kitāb Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār / lil-Shaykh Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī. A collection of prayers and litanies in glorification of the Prophet.
2. fol. 30a-39a: [Prayers and sermonettes]
3. fol. 39b-44b: [Treatise on Qurʼān recitation] / Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Jaʻfar al-Saʻīdī al-Muqriʼ al-Rāzī. A treatise on the proper reading of the Qurʼan.
4. fol. 47b-76b: [Commentary on al-Durr al-yatīm]. A commentary by Aḥmad al-Rūmī on a work on the chanting and reading of the Koran by al-Bīrkilī.
5. fol. 77b [ter]-79b: Bāb fīmā yufraḍu ʻalá al-mukallaf. A short treatise on the religious duties of the Muslim.
6. fol. 79b-83b: [Treatise on Sufism].
7. fol. 84a-88a: [Extracts and inscriptions] Notes in Arabic and Turkish. Includes an inscription dated 1144/1731-2.
8. fol. 88b-109a: [al-Muqaddimah] / Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd ibn Saʻīd al-Ghaznawī. A compendium of Muslim duties according to the Hanafite school.
9. fol. 109b-204b: [Miscellany]. Prayers, sermonettes, extracts, and traditions. Includes selections: Bāb al-daʻwāt wa-al-tasbīḥat, extract from al-Kifāyat fī sharḥ al-Bidāyah, Duʻāʼ Sayyid al-Istighfār, Duʻāʼ talqīn by Mawlá Khusraw, sermonettes on a range of topics including marriage, ʻīd al-fiṭr, etc., a text by Muḥammad Salīm ibn ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, and Ḥilyat al-Nabī.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from from lower edge of text block.
Marginal notes and glosses. Inserts. Ten blank leaves after folio 158.
Collation: Paper ; fol. viii + 205 + ii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-25 lines per page ; frame-rule in red.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (crown with cartouche; grapes; horn; other unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece in gold (fol. 1b and 47b). Illumination across a double-page spread of Muḥammad's mausoleum with inner and outer frame of gold (fol. 5b-6a). A few opening spreads are frame-ruled in gold (fol. 1b-2a; 47b-48a; 88b-89a).
Origin: [Treatise on reading the Qurʼan] Apparently copied by al-Ḥājj Muḥammad, Imām at Jāmiʻ al-Sulṭān Aḥmad Khan in al-Qusṭanṭīnīyah in 1112 (f. 44b) -- [Commentary on al-Durr al-yatīm] Copied 1 Rajab 1114 by al-Ḥājj Muḥammad, Imām at Jāmiʻ al-Sulṭān Aḥmad Khan (fol. 76b).
Incipit: [كتاب دلائل] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... قال الشيخ ... محمد بن سليمان الجزولى ... وبعد فالغرض في هذا الكتاب ذكره الصلوة على النبى ... -- [Treatise on Qurʼan recitation] بسخ الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ ابو الحسن على هلاى جعفر السعيدى المقرئ الرازى رضى الله عنه ينبغى لقارئ كتاب الله تعالى بعد معرفته اللحن الجلى ... -- [Commentary on al-Durr al-yatīm] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله على نواله والصلوة على بينه واله وبعد فان اولى ما يتوسل به الى نيل الغفران واحرى ما يتوصل به الى دخول الجنان قراء كتاب الله -- [باب فيما يفرض] باب فيما يفرض على المكلف يحكى عن الحسن البصرى -- [Treatise on Sufism] اعلم ان الصوفية هم الذين احيوا سنة رسول الله -- [المقدمة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... وبعد يقول ... الغزنوى ... اعلم وفقك الله وايانا بان الواجب على العبد المكلغ اولا ان يعرف ربه ...
Explicit: [كتاب دلائل] ... والحمد لله رب العالمين وحسينا الله ونعم الوكيل كتبه الفقير اليه سبحانه غفر الله من لله واصلح عمله -- [Treatise on Qurʼan recitation] ... والشيخ القرا التي بناها المرحوم الوزر الاعظم الحاج حسين باشا في بلدة القسطنطينية المحمية حفظها الله تعالى عن افاتها الليلة في اخر الزمان الدولة العلية -- [Commentary on al-Durr al-yatīm] وقد وقع الفراغ من ؟ هذه النسخة وقت العشاء فى ليلة الثلثا من غرة رجب الفرد من الهجرة المحمدية صلى الله عليه وسلم واصحابه وسلم تسليما كثيرا الى يوم الدين -- [باب فيما يفرض] ...كقوله تعالى ويحلفون على الكذب وهم يعلمون -- [Treatise on Sufism] ... برحمتك يا اسر حى الراحمين[؟] -- [المقدمة] ...ومن احسن قولا ممن دعا الى الله وعمل صالحا وقال اننى من المسلمين قد تمت الراسلة المرغوبة
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with gold painted frame and gold-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on envelope flap. Endbands. Both covers are detached.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632
Birgivî Mehmet Efendi approximately 1522-1573—Durr al-yatīm fī al-tajwīd
Qurʼan—Recitation—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Islamic sermons, Arabic—Early works to 1800
Muslims—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)
illuminations (paintings)
Gold tooled bindings
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
486

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0a7691eb-c1cc-4ac5-8667-71b1064be215/manifest