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Subject(s)

• Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslims—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 840H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197. Hidāyah. [Browse]
• مرغيناني، علي بن ابي بكر، -1196 or 1197. هداية. [Browse]

Summary note

An epitome of the work al-Hidāyah, the commentary of al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī on his own Bidāyat al-mubtadī, a work on Hanafite law.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from later title page (fol. IVa).
• Heavily annotated with marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Title on the lower edge of the text block. Several inscriptions including masāʼil and a waqf statement on folios IVa-1a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. IV + 173 + iii ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 11 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpapers only: three crescents; cross on hills and roman-alphabet letters "SCS 1722") ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 879 by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad (fol. 173b).
• Incipit: بسم اللهالرحمن الرحيم وبه العون حمد لمن جعل العلم اجل المواهب الهنيّه واسناها واعلى المراتب السنية ... وبعد فان الولد الاعثر عبيد الله صرف الله ايامه فيما يحبه ...
• Colophon: تمت بعون الله وحسن توفيق. حرره اضعف عباد الله واحوجهم الى رحمته ابرهيم بن محمد غفرالله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه. في تاريخ سنة تسع وسبعين ثمانمائة

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped central design and decorative edging. Flap is missing.

Provenance

Seal impression (fol. Ia). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1680.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 458.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 148/9.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 285.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424016

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