[Dalāʾil al-khayrāt].

Accession number:

MS W.60

Title:

Created:

[16--]

Credit:

Bequest; Julia Parker Wightman; 1994.

Description:

121 leaves (1 column, 10 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 235 x 155 mm.

Provenance:

No. 162 in a dealer's catalogue (laid in between fols. 1v-2); Harry A. Levinson, Beverly Hills, CA; purchased by Julia Parker Wightman from Levinson in 1941; JPW 1812; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.

Notes:

Ms. signs of the good; written and illuminated in Iran, 17th century.
Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures (fol. 29v - the sanctuary of the Ka?ba; fol. 30 - the mosque at Medina including the 3 graves of Muhammad, Abu Bakr, and Umar), 14 illuminated title pages with headpieces (7 double page illuminated openings); each text page has center text framed with illuminated floral border, with illuminated motifs set into the surrounding translation.
The Arabic text is surrounded by a Persian translation in the border; some of the translation is written in nastaʻlīq.
Binding: 19th-century lacquer painting over pasteboard, floral sprays, floral and geometrical borders; lacquer-painted doublures with large palmette on red background, framed in floral and geometric borders, in red cloth folding case.

Variant Title:

Signs of the good

Script:

naskh and nasta'liq.

Language:

In Arabic and Persian;

Century:

17th century

Genres:

Illuminated manuscripts

Miniatures

Illuminated title pages