The authorʼs commentary on his own work on Ḥanafite jurisprudence entitled Bidāyat al-mubtadī. This MS contains the greater part of vol. I ending with Kitāb al-Iqrār.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 217b).
Marginal notes. The first five folios are lacking. Label on folio 217b: "F.G 14".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 217 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet countermark initials "AG" with trefoil) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1138 (fol. 217b).
Incipit: بالتحريم لا بطريق الکرامة النجاسة بخلاف ...
Colophon: تمت سنة الف ومائة وثمانية وثلاثين. 1138
Binding note
Only remnant of binding is spine of brown leather.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1698.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 479.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4488/9.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1340425284
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