كتاب وقاية الرواية في مسائل الهداية.

Kitāb Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1424]
Description
137 leaves : paper ; 277 x 184 (157 x 95) mm. bound to 280 x 190 mm.

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    Summary note
    A work on fiqh, an epitome of the work called al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or 7).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from fol. 1a.
    • Copied by al-Ḥajj ibn Aḥmad ibn Khalīl in 827 (1424) -- colophon (fol. 132b).
    • 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil. Dark cream glazed paper visible laid lines (a few sheets at the end of the ms. appear to be on different paper and one has a watermark). Extensive marginal and within the text annotation throughout. Fol. 1a has a table of contents. Some water and worm damage to paper.
    • Incipit: حمد من جعل العلم اجل المواهب الهنية واسناها وعلى المراتب السنية واسماها احسن ما يفتتح به الكلام
    • Explicit: وفى غنم مذبوحة فيها ميتة وهى اقل واكل فى الاختيار
    Binding note
    Marbled paper over pasteboard on covers and envelope flap. Light brown leather on spine and purple buckram on fore edge flap. Lining to the envelope flap in same marbled paper and lining to the fore edge flap in same purple buckram, while the covers have no lining and a blue layer of pasteboard is visible. Label on upper cover: "120".
    Language note
    Arabic.
    Provenance
    Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 1025
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 468 (Ausz. 1)
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 646
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic format.
    OCLC
    1340392633
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