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Or 15741

Record Id:

032-004053231

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Or 15741

Title:

[Vesailü’l-hasenat fi şerh Delailü’l-hayrat]

Additional Titles:

وسائل الحسنات في شرح دلائل الخيرات هذا شرح دلائل الخيرات

Haza Şerh Delailü’l-hayrat

Scope & Content:

This is an Ottoman Turkish translation and commentary of the Delailü’l-hayrat, the famous Arabic compilation of invocations of blessings upon the Prophet Muhammad, authored by Muhammed ibn-i Süleyman el-Cezuli (Muhammad b. Sulaymān al-Jazūlī) (died 870 AH/1465 CE).

This copy was completed in 1129 AH/1717 CE by es-Seyyid Mustafa ibn-i Mehmed ibn el-Hac Mehmed. It is evidently much less common than the translation and commentary by Karadavudzade (Or 15654).

Begins:

Besmele elhamdülillahillezi dellena bi-Dela’ili’l-hayrat ila cela’ili’l-müberrat ve’s-salatü’t-tammatü’z-zekiyat ‘ala Seyyidi’s-Sadat ve Mazhari’r-risalat... ve ba‘d, Bu arkam-i müşkin-famın tahrir ve imlasına bad?

Ends:

Allahümmahşurna ma‘el-enbiya ve’l-evliya ve’s-salihin ve hasune ula’ike refiken, velhamdülillah Rabbi’l-‘Alemin, ve sallallah ‘ala Seyyidina ve Mevlana Muhammed ve ‘ala alih ve eshabih ve ezvacih ve sellem teslimen ecma‘in, ya Arhem er-rahimin. Amin amin amin.

A small polychrome and gold illuminated heading can be found on 2v, and more elaborate illumination is on the colophon page on f 379v. Arabic text and headings are rendered in vocalized nesih, in red ink. The invocation Hasbünallahü ve ni‘me’l-vekil is found on 1r.

The colophon perhaps gives the date of composition rather than of copying. It states that the work was completed on 19 Cemaziyülevvel 1130 AH/ 20 April 1718 CE, and was begun on 19 Zilhicce 1129 AH/25 November 1717 CE.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 text, 379 ff

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Turkish, Ottoman

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1688

End Date:

1728

Date Range:

Early 12th century

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Yellowish-white European laid paper, thinner towards the end of the manuscript

Foliation: European, 379 folios, plus 3 blank but for text frames

Dimensions: 223 x 142 mm; 165 x 81 mm

Pricking and Ruling: 13 lines; Text frames: black and gold

Script: Rıka

Binding: Original red morocco binding with blind ornamental medallions, flap

Custodial History:

The front endpaper carries an ownership inscription of A. M. Taylor. On 2r there is mention of the ownership of one Yahya Sa‘d. On the back endpaper is an ex libris of Falkland Warren with the family coat of arms

Information About Copies:

Another manuscript of es-Seyyid Mustafa’s commentary is held in the Topkapı Palace Library: see Karatay, TSMK I, 134.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Muhammad bin Sulayman al-Jazuli, 870
Muhammad, the Prophet,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121032851,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97245226

Subjects:

Muslim devotional literature

Places:

Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe

Related Material:

For another Ottoman Turkish commentary on the Delail, authored by Karadavudzade Mehmed Efendi (died 1170/1756), see British Library Or 15654.

The British Library also holds a significant collection of the Dalā’il al-Khayrāt in its original Arabic, especially from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and which are too extensive to list here.

The British Library also holds a number of commentaries in Arabic, including Sulaymān Ibn ‘Umar Al-Jamal al-‘Ujaylī, Kitāb al-minaḥ al-Ilahiyyāt bi-sharḥ Dalā’il al-Khayrāt (Or 14152; Or 4752); ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī bin Sālim al-Simillāwī, Kashf (tafrīj) al-kurab wa al-muhimmāt bi-sharḥ Dalā’il al-Khayrāt (Or 12926); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī al-Qaṣri al-Fāsī, Maṭāli‘ al-masarrāt bi-jalā’ Dalā’il al-Khayrāt (IO ISL 1700; Delhi Arabic 371; Or 13252/A; Add MS 6019; Or 12846; Delhi Arabic 362; Or 2890/2).

On the Delailü’l-hayrat see Sabiha Göloğlu, ‘Depicting the holy: Representations of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem in the Late Ottoman Empire (PhD Dissertation, Koç Üniversitesi, 2018); Nurul Iman Rusli, Dalaʼil Al-Khayrat. Prayer Manuscripts from the 16th to 19th Centuries (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2016); Jan Just Witkam, ‘The battle of images: Mecca vs. Medina in the iconography of the manuscripts of al-Jazūlī’s Dalā’il al-Khayrāt,’ in Theoretical Approaches to the Transmission and Edition of Oriental Manuscripts: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Istanbul March 28–30, 2001, edited by Judith Pfeiffer and Manfred Kropp (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2007), 67–82, 295–300 (illustrations).

Related Archive Descriptions:

Or 15654