Item Summary

First volume of Marghinānī's commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ, a treatise on Ḥanafī law, comprising Kitāb al-Ṭahārah to Kitāb al-Waqf.

Descriptive Information

Title
الدفتر الاول من الهداية
Transliterated Title
al-Daftar al-awwal min al-Hidāyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2592Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/g158bk897
Publisher
[1421]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1421
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 289, i leaves: paper ; 265 x 175 (190 x 105) mm. bound to 265 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Inscription by Ismāʻīl Ṣidqī in purple ink on fol. 4b and 5a, dated 1317 H. [1899 or 1900]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1011
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 288b-289a).
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin light biscuit paper with pulp and laid lines visible. The first 4 fol. are later additions on European paper with watermark. Fol. 26-72, 158-173, and 214-235 in the modern foliation are later replacements. Important marginal annotations on the original leaves. Annotations on pieces of paper pasted between the leaves. The first six folios of the text (fol. 4-9 in the modern foliation in pencil) have the upper part mended, with the text recopied on the repair. Table of contents on fol. 3a-4a. Several inscriptions and short texts on fol. 5a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
Origin: Copy completed on Yawm al-Khamīs 10 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 824 [April 1421] by Ṣadr al-Dīn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn ibn ʻAlāʼ al-qāḍī al-Wāshjhī (colophon, fol. 289a).
Former shelmark: Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī 442". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1645".
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اعلى معالم العلم واعلامه واظهر شعاير الشرع واحكامه
Explicit: في الشرب والنزول والغنىّ لا يحتاج الى صرف هذه الغلّة لغناه والله تعالى اعلم
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a blind stamped panel with a large central madorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and corner pieces. Grey, green and orange marbled paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Bidāyat al-mubtadī
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—History—12th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
293

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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