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Item Summary
A commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب صدر الشريعة في شرح الوقاية.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah fī sharḥ al-Wiqāyah.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 842H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrv0435390
- Publisher
- 966 [1558 or 1559]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1558
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 260 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 215 x 160 (147 x 80) mm bound to 214 x 163 mm.
- Provenance
- Signatures: Sayyid Ḥusayn, mudarris dated 1174; Muḥammad Suʻūdī; Muḥammad [?] (fol. 4a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1744.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 460.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4548/9.
- Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 287.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from table of contents (fol. 1b).
- Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Diagrams (fol. 22b). Two tables of contents (fol. 1b-3a and 5a). Inserts. Several inscriptions and a seal impression on first preliminary folio. A listing of an owner's library? (fol. 1a). A number of additional inscriptions, traditions, extracts, seal impressions, etc. (fol. 3b-4b). Gold ink used for heading on first table of contents, and one ownership statement.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 160 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpapers: crown-star-crescent and roman-alphabet letters "AC" with trefoil, circle with a bird; text: unidentified, IHS) ; MS in good condition.
- Decoration: Gilt headpiece (fol. 5b). Opening spread frame-ruled in gold (fol. 5b-6a).
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed 966 by Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʻĪsá al-Āyidīnī (fol. 259a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين ... يقول العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة ... هذا حل المواضع المغلقة من وقاية الرواية من مسائل الهداية ...
- Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من تنميق هذه النسخة الشريفة المبارکة عن يد العبد الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الحاج حسين بن عبد الصمد ابن عيسى الايديني في سنة ست وستين وتسعمائة غفرالله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات الاحياء منهم والاموات برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين تمت
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Red leather doublures.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh -1274 or 1275—Wiqāyat al-riwāyah
- Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
- Muslims—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800
- Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
- Hanafites—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- diagrams
- headpieces (layout features)
- illuminated manuscripts
- Autographs
- Stamps
- Leather doublures
- Blind tooled bindings
- Watermarks
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 546
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/2b507700-edbe-411a-a85a-e512b9b197f3/manifest




















