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Subject(s)

• Islamic law—14th century [Browse]
• Hanafites—14th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Hidāyah [Browse]

Summary note

Second volume of a copy of a commentary on al-Hidāyah, a commentary by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593/1197) on his compendium of Ḥanafī law, Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ fī furūʻ al-fiqh al-Ḥanafī, comprising the text from Kitāb al-Nikāḥ to the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 224a). It appears in a note on fol. 3a as: "Kitāb al-ʻInāyah sharḥ Hidāyat li-Mawlānā Akmal al-Dīn"
• Incipit: كتاب النكاح لما فرغ من العبادات شرع في المعاملات وابتدا من ... بالنكاح لان فيه مصالح الدين والدنيا
• Explicit: والنغر موضع المخافة من فروح البلدان ويفال رابط الحبش اقام فى النغر بازاء الغد ومرابطه ورباطا والله اعلم
• Physical description: 29 lines per page. Written in clear square medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for key words and overlinings. Headings in larger script in red ink. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible ; frame-ruled. Marginal annotations. Partial table of contents on fol. 2a.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī 223". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "321 Ḥāʼ".
• Collation: Paper, fol. i, 225, i ; i (later added endpaper; European paper with watermark) 1¹⁰ (+2, fol. 1-2) 2-21¹⁰ 22¹⁰ (+ 3, after fol. 222) i (later added endpaper; European paper with watermark) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānī" (see fol. 13a ; often cut off due to the trimming of the pages).
• Origin: Copy completed on Thursday 7 Rajab 850 [Sept. 28, 1446] by Muḥammad Shāh Ibn Abī Bakr al-Ḥamawī (colophon, fol. 224a).

Binding note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for uppe and lower covers fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers are similarly blind stamped and tooled, with a central stamped mandorla with floral arabesque, outlined by a single line with radiating flecks. The outer border consists of several fillets. The envelope flap has a similar border and a small roundel on its point. The gold used to outline the central mandorla and for some of the fillets of the border is now visible only on the envelope flap. Yellow paper pastedowns. Leather doublure for fore-edge flap.

Provenance

Two ownership statements, each with a seal, on fol. 3a, in the name of Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-qāḍī in ... and of Qarwī(?) Zade ʻAbd al-Karīm Ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1015
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 376 (24/I. Cmtre 1. Supercmtre 7)

Other title(s)

• ʻInāyah fī sharḥ al-Hidāyah
• عناية في شرح الهداية
• كتاب العناية شرح هداية لمولانا اكمل الدين
• الجلد الثاني من العناية
• عناية شرح هداية

Title in a note on fol. 3a

• Kitāb al-ʻInāyah sharḥ Hidāyat li-Mawlānā Akmal al-Dīn

Title on fol. 1a (partly erased)

• al-Jild al-thānī min al-ʻInā[yah]

Title on tail of text block

• ʻInāyat sharḥ-i Hidāyah

OCLC

137341618

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