Kitāb Maṭāliʻ al-masarrāt bi-jalāʼ Dalāʼil al-khayrāt, [late 17th or early 18th century?].

Commentary by Muḥammad al-Mahdī ibn Aḥmad al-Fāsī on al-Jazūlī's celebrated collection of prayers for the Prophet, Dalāʼil al-khayrāt.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 49Origin: Neither place nor date of composition or copying is specified in colophon. Paper, hand, decoration, etc. suggest late 17th or early 18th century. Ownership statement suggests a terminus ante quem of 1701 (or possibly 1691).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 20. Commentary on Dalail al-khairat."Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown goatskin ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings and interior of envelope flap in a pale orange (salmon) laid paper ; lining of fore edge flap in green silk ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped central mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd7) with annular stamp accents and tooled border of blind rules and a series of roundels ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in white and blue, good condition ; state of preservation is fair to good with some separation of pages (assessment provided by J. Miller).Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced 22-24 mm. apart, and watermarks of grapes (raisin, with stem, parallel to chains, see p.2, 24, 230, 632, 634, etc.) and crown above small cartouche with "M A" flanking four-petaled flour or cross (perpendicular to chains, see p.2, 30, 32, 152, 154, 641, etc. and compare Heawood 2308 dated 1704, without crown but paired with grapes), sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished to glossy ; back flyleaf of laid European paper, chain lines running vertically, with watermark of horn in shield (without crown above).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) on fol.1b with red, blue, and black vegetal designs; bears cartouche carrying title and prayer; gold border on incipit page and facing page (pp.2-3); red rule-borders through remainder of text; text rubricated with matn in red ink, sharḥ in black ink; diagrams showing orientation of tombs of the Prophet, Abū Bakr, and ʻUmar (pp.231-233).Script: Naskh ; angular Egyptian hand in a medium line ; virtually serifless with curvilinear though somewhat flattened descenders, pointing mainly in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ, slight effect of inclination toward the left ; title in cartouche on fol.1a in nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board evident).Collation: i, 31 V (310), VI (322), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals.Colophon: "Authorial," rectangular then triangular, reads: "هذا اخر ما قصدت وتمام الوعد الذي وعدت ولا ايمن ان اكون اسقطت او حرفت شيا من متن الكتاب سهوا و رحم الله امرا راي خللا ... فان الخطا والخطل غير مستغرب من الانسان المطبوع على عدم الاحسان ... الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا نهتدي لو لا ان هدانا الله والحمدلله وحده وصلى الله على من لا نبيه بعده سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين والمرسلين سبحانه ربك رب العزة عما ...والحمدلله رب العالمين ناشدتك الله ان عليك عاينت لي خطا فاستر فان خيار [كذا] الناس من سترا "Explicit: "وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما وهذا اخر الكتاب في النسخة السهلية على ما عند جدي للامام ابي العباس احمد ابن يوسف الفاسي رحمهما الله وغيره عنها كما في غيرها زيادة والحمد لله رب العالمين وزاد في بعض النسخ بعد هذا ... و كتب ايضا الشيخ رضي الله تعالى عنه على ظهر نسخة اخرى هذين البيتين ... وفي رواية معظم هذا اخر ما قضدت ... "Incipit: "يقول العبد الفقير الى الله سبحانه ... محمد المهدي بن احمد بن علي بن يوسف الفاسي ... الحمد لله الذي اختص رسوله محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم بخالص حبه"Title from 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Heawood, Edward. Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries. Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae, vol. I. Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1950.Commentary by Muḥammad al-Mahdī ibn Aḥmad al-Fāsī on al-Jazūlī's celebrated collection of prayers for the Prophet, Dalāʼil al-khayrāt.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase along with Abdul Hamid Collection (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on inner front cover, "No. 20. Commentary on Dalail al-khairat." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "115" in Western numerals on recto of front flyleaf ; ownership statement on recto of front flyleaf along with several ownership statements on 'title page' (p.1), including that in name of Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Yanaywī (محمود بن احمد بن محمد الينيوي), teacher in al-Dāwudīyah in Mecca, likely dated 1112 [1700 or 1] (or possibly 1102 [1690 or 91]) with statement indicating the book was purchased in Egypt ("مشترى بمصر") and that of al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj ʻAbd Allāh (السيد الحاج عبد الله المفتي بارزنجان), muftī in Erzincan, dated 1146 [1733 or 34] ; waqf statement on p.1 also in name of the aforementioned al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj ʻAbd Allāh, reads: "فاسي وقف السيد الحاج عبد الله المفتي بكتبخانه المعمورة بارزنجان سنة 1191"; numerous transcription marks and marginal corrections (see p.15, 262, etc. even referencing a transcript in the hand of the author) as well as notabilia / side-heads (see p.21, 23, etc.)