Descriptive Information

Title

هداية

Transliterated Title

Hidāyah.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2646Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8w32r820s

Publisher

[1326 or 1327]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1326

Extent

345 leaves: paper ; 260 x 184 (175 x 125) mm. bound to 260 x 190 mm.

Provenance

Ownership statement with impression of three seals on fol. (ii)a. 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 inscription on fol. (ii)a.

Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Table of contents and inscription in Ottoman Turkish on fol. (ii)a. Several inscriptions, including kabīkaj and erased ownership statements on fol. 1a. Fol. i and ii are later added endpapers. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (fol. 160-167 and 189-198 of the foliation wanting).

Inscription in Arabic script in pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Thālith fiqh 51".

Origin: According to colophon, copied in 727 H. (fol. 342b).

Incipit: بسم ... وبالله التوفيق والعصمة كتاب البيوع البيع ينعقد بالايجاب والقبول اذا كان

Explicit: الانكشاف بخلاف ما اذا كانا نصفين او كانت الميتة اغلب لانه لا ضرورة تمت بعون الله وحسن توفيقه

Binding Note

Marbled paper covering a binding in brown leather.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—History—12th century—Sources

Hanafites—History—12th century—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Bidāyat al-mubtadī

Physical Characteristics

File Count

353

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/00646afe-2c96-4558-b75d-978e597e04f4/manifest

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