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Subject(s)

• Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Bidāyat al-mubtadī [Browse]
• Islamic law—History—12th century—Sources [Browse]
• Hanafites—History—12th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Careful copy of the first half of Marghinānī's commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ, a treatise on Ḥanafī law. Even though the copyist and the layout are different for each volume, 3593Y and 3594Y circulated as a set at least since 1166 H. [1752 or 3] (see provenance note and binding note).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a; up to Abū al-Ḥasan on a repair).
• Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Thick soft dark cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid lines visible. Mainly quinions, catchword on most verso. Fol. 1 and 258 are later additions (European paper). Marginal annotations by several hands. Some leaves are crudely repaired with loss of marginalia. The modern foliation in pencil omits a leaf between fol. 121 and 122.
• Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "A264a". Inscriptions in Roman script in pencil on fol. 1a: "255 Bl. / vol. I / A264a".
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Ismāʻīl, who completed his work on Friday 7 Ramaḍān 683 [Nov. 17, 1284] (fol. 257b). On the margin of the colophon, collation statement, mentioning that the text was collated on the authograph (aṣl al-muṣannif) in 683 H.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اعلى معالم العلم واعلامه واظهر شعاير الشرع واحكامه
• Explicit: ولان الحاجة تشتمل الغنى والفقي فى النزول والشب والغنى لا يحتاج الى صرف هذه الغلة لغنايه والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب تم المجلد الاول من الهداية

Binding note

Loose quires placed in a binding in marbled paper and red leather, with flap. Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

From the books of Aḥmad Mahdī ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Ayyūbī al-Anṣārī (ownership statement, fol. 1a). Five ownership and reading statements on fol. 2a, some obliterated or covered by repair, including one ownership statement in the name of al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Sinān kātib al-Sulaymānīyah, mentioning Juzʼ 2 (dated 1166 H., with hardly legible seal); one reading statement dated Jumādá I '77; another dated M. 1209 H. Reading statement on fol. 257b, mentioning that this part was read under al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Ayyūbī in 1166-1167 H. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1011

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb al-Hidāyah
• كتاب الهداية

OCLC

212408198

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