Item Summary

The first volume of a commentary on al-Hidāyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
الاول من العناية شرح الهداية.
Transliterated Title
al-Awwal min al-ʻInāyah sharḥ al-Hidāyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 845H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgt54m036h
Publisher
15 Muḥarram 1159 [February 7, 1746]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1746
Format
Manuscript
Extent
412 leaves : paper ; 218 x 161 (160 x 96) mm bound to 215 x 166 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1746.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 269, VI, p. 485.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 81/2.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4493.
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 219.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from later caption (fol. 1a).
The first thirty folios (quires 1-4) are missing.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 412 ; quires signed: 5-44 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents; hills) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 15 Muḥarram 1159 by Mūsá ibn Sālim al-Zuwayrī (fol. 412a).
Beginning (as extant): اجيب انه ليس من باب الخصوص في شيء وانما هو من ياب ...
Colophon: وهذا آخر العبادات. تم هذا الجزء المبارك بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه على يد کاتبه الفقيرالى الله موسى بن سالم الزويري بلدًا الشافعي مذهبا غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمحبيه ولجميع المسلمين امين وذلك في سنة وخمسين ومائة والف سنة 1159 خامس عشرالمحرم الحرام والله اعلم. م
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Tan paper pastedowns. Not sewn.

Discovery Information

Subject
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Hidāyah
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
837

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/74275239-a441-4662-b4b2-e4883dc9013a/manifest