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Subject(s)

• Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh -1274 or 1275—Wiqāyat al-riwāyah [Browse]
• 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]

Scribe

• Āyidīnī, Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• آيديني، حسين بن عبد الصمد، active 16th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 842H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Leather doublures [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• diagrams [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [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

A commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from table of contents (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Diagrams (fol. 22b). Two tables of contents (fol. 1b-3a and 5a). Inserts. Several inscriptions and a seal impression on first preliminary folio. A listing of an owner's library? (fol. 1a). A number of additional inscriptions, traditions, extracts, seal impressions, etc. (fol. 3b-4b). Gold ink used for heading on first table of contents, and one ownership statement.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 160 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpapers: crown-star-crescent and roman-alphabet letters "AC" with trefoil, circle with a bird; text: unidentified, IHS) ; MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Gilt headpiece (fol. 5b). Opening spread frame-ruled in gold (fol. 5b-6a).
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 966 by Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʻĪsá al-Āyidīnī (fol. 259a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين ... يقول العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة ... هذا حل المواضع المغلقة من وقاية الرواية من مسائل الهداية ...
• Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من تنميق هذه النسخة الشريفة المبارکة عن يد العبد الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الحاج حسين بن عبد الصمد ابن عيسى الايديني في سنة ست وستين وتسعمائة غفرالله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات الاحياء منهم والاموات برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين تمت

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Red leather doublures.

Provenance

Signatures: Sayyid Ḥusayn, mudarris dated 1174; Muḥammad Suʻūdī; Muḥammad [?] (fol. 4a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1744.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 460.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4548/9.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 287.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421872

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