Details

Subject(s)

• Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Bidāyat al-mubtadī [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923 [Browse]

Former owner

• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [Browse]

Summary note

Legal treatise written as a commentary on another of al-Marghīnānī's works, Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ. Extensive tables of contents added to beginning of work.

Notes

• Binding: Leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-stamped medallions on covers and flap; spine and flap hinge limp and damaged.
• Decoration: Rubrications in red.
• Foliation: Paper, 478; [i-vii, [i], viii-ix], 1-18, 18-48, 50-76, 78-87, 89-150, 150, 152-176, 178-187, 189-231, 233-240, 242-301, 303-307, 309-312, 312-321, [i], 322-423, 425-447, 447-474, foliation in red ink, upper left recto.
• Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
• Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: The copy is undated; perhaps produced in the 16th or 17th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate, inside front cover).

Source acquisition

Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate, inside front cover).

OCLC

954274741

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