Title: The Dala’il al-Khayrat of al-Jazuli and Other Prayers
Date: dated Rajab 1216 (November 1801) & Ramadan 1216 (January 1802)
Location: India, or possibly Mecca by Indian artists
Materials: ink and opaque watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 101 folios; 25 x 16cm (page)
Accession Number: MSS 1283
Other Notes: The manuscript has one single and two double pages of illustrations. In addition to the depiction of the Prophet’s tomb (folio 15a) which the text describes, there are views of the Prophet’s mosque at Medina and the al-Baqi‘ cemetery (folios 13b–14a) as well as the Masjid al-Haram at Mecca, Mount ‘Arafat and Jerusalem (folios 82b–83a). The diagrammatic style of the depictions relates them to contemporary pilgrimage scrolls, especially those painted by Indian artists resident in Mecca. (See MSS 745.1–3)
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