Item Summary

Careful copy of the first half of Marghinānī's commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ, a treatise on Ḥanafī law. Even though the copyist and the layout are different for each volume, 3593Y and 3594Y circulated as a set at least since 1166 H. [1752 or 3] (see provenance note and binding note).

Descriptive Information

Title
النصف الاول من كتاب الهداية التي هي من اعظم كتب الحنيفية / تأليف المحقق المدقق صاحب الكرامات الظاهرة اقر له اهل عصره بالفضل والعلم والتقدم الشيخ برهان الدين ابو الحسن علي بن ابي بكر بن عبد الجليل الفرغاني شيخ الاسلام المرغيناني
Transliterated Title
al-Niṣf al-awwal min Kitāb al-Hidāyah allatī hiya min aʻẓam kutub al-Ḥanīfīyah / taʼlīf al-muḥaqqiq al-mudaqqiq ṣāḥib al-karāmāt al-ẓāhirah aqarra lahu ahl ʻaṣrihi bi-al-faḍl wa-al-ʻilm wa-al-taqaddum al-Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʻAbd al-Jalīl al-Farghānī shaykh al-islām al-Marghīnānī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3593Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xs55mf69w
Publisher
[1284]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1284
Format
Manuscript
Extent
258 leaves: paper ; 265 x 180 (165 x 115) mm. bound to 268 x 200 mm.
Provenance
From the books of Aḥmad Mahdī ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Ayyūbī al-Anṣārī (ownership statement, fol. 1a). Five ownership and reading statements on fol. 2a, some obliterated or covered by repair, including one ownership statement in the name of al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Sinān kātib al-Sulaymānīyah, mentioning Juzʼ 2 (dated 1166 H., with hardly legible seal); one reading statement dated Jumādá I '77; another dated M. 1209 H. Reading statement on fol. 257b, mentioning that this part was read under al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Ayyūbī in 1166-1167 H. 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 title page (fol. 2a; up to Abū al-Ḥasan on a repair).
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Thick soft dark cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid lines visible. Mainly quinions, catchword on most verso. Fol. 1 and 258 are later additions (European paper). Marginal annotations by several hands. Some leaves are repaired with loss of marginalia. The modern foliation in pencil omits a leaf between fol. 121 and 122.
Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "A264a". Inscriptions in Roman script in pencil on fol. 1a: "255 Bl. / vol. I / A264a".
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Ismāʻīl, who completed his work on Friday 7 Ramaḍān 683 [Nov. 17, 1284] (fol. 257b). On the margin of the colophon, collation statement, mentioning that the text was collated on the authograph (aṣl al-muṣannif) in 683 H.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اعلى معالم العلم واعلامه واظهر شعاير الشرع واحكامه
Explicit: ولان الحاجة تشتمل الغنى والفقي فى النزول والشب والغنى لا يحتاج الى صرف هذه الغلة لغنايه والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب تم المجلد الاول من الهداية
Binding Note
Loose quires placed in a binding in marbled paper and red leather, with flap. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
263

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2ed778f8-1a64-4d9d-a4c5-afcf3ed3a52f/manifest