Item Summary

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.

Descriptive Information

Title
الهداية في الفقه.
Transliterated Title
al-Hidāyah fī al-fiqh.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 236Lq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcd791sv43s
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1725
Extent
217 leaves : paper ; 321 x 225 (240 x 150) mm.
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.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
466

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9733a0ea-9d57-429d-91aa-b47b7ce37979/manifest