Item Summary

A commentary on Bidāyat al-mubtadī. Incomplete at the beginning.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Commentary on Bidāyat al-mubtadī].
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 235Lq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsf268j367
Publisher
[16th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
54 leaves : paper ; 277 x 183 (200 x 120) mm bound to 282 x 192 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1702.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Heavily annotated with marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Notes and masāʼil follow the colophon (fol. 53b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 54 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Text commented upon overlined in red ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIth century.
Beginning: لان الرواية محفوظة انه لو ادعى ... والجناية في النفس ...
Colophon: وقد تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة المبارکة على يد العبد الضعيف الفقيرالحقيرالمذنب المحتاج الراجي رحمة ربه اللطيف الجليل حامدا لله ومصليا على نبيّه محمد المصطفى خاتم الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and dark paper. Endbands.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
118

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/e2c78977-dff8-4650-ac9e-062adda9fa05/manifest