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A commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, a work on fiqh by the author's grandfather, Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī (d. 1274 or 5). As for the work itself, Wiqāyat al-riwāyah is an epitome of the work called al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or 7).
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- Publisher
- [1487]
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh -1274 or 1275—Wiqāyat al-riwāyah
- Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Hidāyah
- 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
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Item Summary
A commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, a work on fiqh by the author's grandfather, Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī (d. 1274 or 5). As for the work itself, Wiqāyat al-riwāyah is an epitome of the work called al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or 7).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب صدر الشريعة.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah.
- Call Number
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2481Yq
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/4f16c542f
- Publisher
- [1487]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1487
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 245 leaves : paper ; 280 x 175 (185 x 92) mm. bound to 275 x 190 mm.
- Provenance
- Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Mach, R. Yahuda, 1026
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 468 (I, cmt. a)
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 646
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from fol. 11b.
- Copy completed in Rajab 892 (1487) by Muḥammad Aḥmad bin Amīn al-Dīn -- colophon (fol. 242b).
- 21 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Foliation in Arabic numerals in red ink and in Western numerals in pencil. Glazed cream paper with visible laid lines. Extensive marginal annotations throughout. Paper very fragile, especially the first third of the ms, with some loss of text. Extensive repairs to paper at the start, with white and thick blue paper. Ff. 1a-2a, 4a-7b, 11a and 243a-b have numerous short inscriptions and excerpts, chiefly in Arabic, with some on the replacement sheets at the start in Ottoman. Ff. 8-10 are a table of contents added later on a dark blue replacement paper of smaller dimensions (222 x 170 mm), and written in black and red ink.
- Incipit: يقول العبد المتوسل الى الله تع باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة ... هذا حل المواضع المغلقة من وقاية الرواية فى مسايل الهداية
- Explicit: ومع ذلك يباح التناول اعتمادا على الغالب والله اعلم
- Binding Note
- Brown leather with envelope flap. Blind tooled panel design on covers, consisting of a central mandorla (blind stamped with cream leather pasted over) with 8 fillets radiating towards 2 smaller mandorlas, 4 corner pieces and small rosetta stamps, all within several blind fillets around the borders of covers. The envelope flap has a similar design with a mandorla and fillets around edges and through the centre. Blind tooled panel design on fore edge flap, made with fillets in a diced pattern. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in light blue paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in dark blue fabric.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh -1274 or 1275—Wiqāyat al-riwāyah
- Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Hidāyah
- 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
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 295
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/976e979e-7308-4097-9e94-12950588a5db/manifest