Item Summary

Treatise in Jawi consisting of three bābs on doctrine, prayer, and fasting.

Descriptive Information

Title
بداية المبتدي بفضل الله المهدي.
Transliterated Title
Bidāyat al-mubtadī bi-faḍl Allāh al-mahdī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 477L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dch702qk96p
Publisher
[18--?]
Language
Malay
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
76 leaves : paper ; 208 x 161 (155 x 102) mm. bound to 210 x 163 mm.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Princeton Class of 1897), 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2b.
Insert (leaf from an older Arabic ms.) between fol. 52-53.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Written on heavy unglazed, laid European paper. Arabic sections of text and keywords in red ink. Arabic text vocalized. Catchwords. Watermarks (concordia res parvae crescunt, roman-alphabet letters "AR").
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in brown, black, and red, and text framed in red and brown (fol. 1b).
Incipit: دغن نام الله جواك مملاى مماج رسالة اين اي جوتوهن ...
Colophon: وقد وقع الفراغ من تسويد هذه الرسالة تمت الكتاب المسمى بداية المبتدي في يوم الاثنين وقت ضحى و صلى الله على سيدنا محمد
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) limp binding in cloth over paper. Upper cover detached.

Discovery Information

Subject
Fasting—Religious aspects—Islam—Qurʼanic teaching
Islam—Doctrines
Prayer—Islam
Manuscripts, Malay—New Jersey—Princeton
Cloth bindings
Watermarks
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
162

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/75a3af97-ad5a-4c04-b818-5f4b0d9be6f1/manifest