Treatise on Ḥanafī furūʻ. With table of contents in Arabic on leaf 1a, and table of contents in French beginning with leaf 269 on leaves ia-ib and insert.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text on leaf 4b; also on lower edge.
Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in large neat naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Foliated in Arabic script beginning on leaf 3; leaves 258-267 are bound incorrectly and belong after leaf 247. Several small inserts have been bound with the manuscript. Mild insect damage along upper and lower margins, resulting in some paper repairs. Some staining. In good condition.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا الى بالغ حکمه واولانا سابغ نعمه
Binding note
Maroon leather spine with black leather covers; blind-stamped central mandorla and fillets; maroon leather doublures.
Language note
Arabic.
Provenance
On leaf 3a are a number of stamps and notes: Note of sale with stamp of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mukhtār in Tūnis, dated 1094 H. Note of sale with stamp of Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad in al-Jazāʾir, dated 1113 H. Owner's note of al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá, dated 1143 H. Undated notes of Jaʻfar and Aḥmad ibn ... Ex libris of Robert Garrett on inner front cover. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 376 (24/I)
Other title(s)
Bidāyat al-mubtadī
بداية المبتدي
OCLC
842392817
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