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
الجلد الاول من كتاب هداية هي شرح البداية / للامام برهان الدين علي بن ابي بكر بن عبد الجليل الرشتاني المرغناني
Transliterated Title
al-Jild al-awwal min Kitāb Hidāyah hiya sharḥ al-Bidāyah / lil-Imām Burhān al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʻAbd al-Jalīl al-Rishtānī al-Marghinānī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2644Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/kw52jb68s
Publisher
[1429]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1429
Extent
301 leaves: paper ; 280 x 185 (160 x 105) mm.
Provenance
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 note on fol. 2a.
Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in small casual nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Cream paper with laid and chain lines visible (a few leaves are dyed in orange). Fol. 1 is a latter addition on European paper. Marginal annotations (important on the first folios). Table of contents on fol. 1b. Several inscriptions and short excerpts, including an erased ownership statement on fol. 2a. Several prayers and sayings from the Prophet on fol. 297b-298b. Fol. 299: Blank. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals.
Origin: Copy completed on Sunday 21 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 833 [Dec. 18, 1429] (in numerals) by Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm (colophon, fol. 297b).
Collation: Paper, fol. 301 ; 1¹⁰ (-1 at the beginning of the quire, +1 later added European paper) 2-29¹⁰ 30¹⁰ (+1, last fol.) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Former shelfmark: Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1640". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a spine label (vertical): "122".
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اعلى معالم العلم واعلامه واظهر شعار الشرع واحكامه
Binding Note
Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Covered with marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
309

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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