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كتاب وقاية الرواية في مسائل الهداية.
Kitāb Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah.
Author
Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh, -1274 or 1275
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برهان الشريعة، محمود بن عبيد الله
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Uniform title
Wiqāyat al-riwāyah
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وقاية الرواية
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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.
Availability
Available Online
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2548Y
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Subject(s)
Islam
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Customs and practices
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Early works to 1800
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Muslims
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Conduct of life
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Early works to 1800
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Islamic law
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Interpretation and construction
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Early works to 1800
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Hanafites
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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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
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Microfilm available for reproduction.
Also available in an electronic format.
OCLC
1340392633
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