Item Summary

The author's commentary on his own work on Hanafite jurisprudcence entitled Bidāyat al-mubtadī. The first four folios are missing. The text begins with Kitāb al-Ṭaharāt and ends with Kitāb al-waqf.

Descriptive Information

Title
[الهداية].
Transliterated Title
[al-Hidāyah].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 237L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8g84n0513
Publisher
end of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 788 [May 1386]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1386
Format
Manuscript
Extent
226 leaves : paper ; 259 x 181 (165 x 105) mm bound to 270 x 182 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1699.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Label on upper cover: "KE 270".
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 226 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: MS in fair condition; stained with dampness.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed end of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 788 (fol. 226a).
Beginning: كله ثم سالنى بعض اخوانى ان املى عليهم المجموع الثانى فافتحته مستعينا بالله ... كتاب الطهارات ...
Colophon: حرر العبد الضعيف المحتاح الى رحمه الله تعالى سلمان بن محمد الداصانى؟ ... عفر الله له ولوالديه ... فى الاخر ربيع الاول سنه ثمان وثمانين وسبعمايه
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and cornerpieces with gold outlining and blind-tooled edging on lower cover. Upper cover covered with dark paper. Leather doublures; lower doublure is missing.

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
Blind tooled bindings
Leather doublures

Physical Characteristics

File Count
466

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e5587163-01c3-4fb4-bd10-daaffa993075/manifest