The Dala’il al-Khayrat of al-Jazuli and the Qasidat al-Burdah of al-Busiri
MSS 172
North Africa
late 19th century
ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper; contemporary gold-tooled red morocco binding
text copied in maghribi naskh; 10 lines to the page
233 folios; 11.4 x 11cm
The manuscript includes 2 diagrammatic drawings of the al-Hujrah al-sharifah (folio 16b) and the al-Rawdah al-mutahharah (folio 18a), at the Prophet’s mosque in Medina. The depiction of the Holy Sanctuary at Mecca, normally found in Ottoman copies of the work but which is not described in al-Jazuli’s text, is absent from copies made in North Africa.