Item Summary

First volume of Marghinānī's commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ, a treatise on Ḥanafī law, comprising Kitāb al-Ṭahārah to Kitāb al-Waqf.

Descriptive Information

Title
هداية.
Transliterated Title
Hidāyah.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1221Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/kp78gj99c
Publisher
[1329]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1329
Format
Manuscript
Extent
240 leaves: paper ; 290 x 170 (215 x 125) mm. bound to 290 x 190 mm.
Provenance
From the books of ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, known as Ibn Dazdār (ownership statement, fol. 3a). Impression of a seal on fol. 7a. 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. 7a.
Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Soft biscuit paper, hardly translucid, with pulp visible. Fol. 1 and 240 are later additions (European paper). Marginal annotations. Table of contents on fol. 3b-5b. Biographical note on the author, excerpted from Ṭabaqāt al-ʻulamāʼ, and verses of poetry in praise of this book on fol. 1a (later hand). Several short inscriptions and excerpts of various texts on fol. 2a-b. Several inscriptions, including verses of poetry on fol. 7a. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (a few numbers in that foliation wanting). Number of leaves according to modern foliation.
Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "188". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1039".
Origin: According to colophon, completed in --- Ābād by ...? on 12 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 729 [Sept. 7, 1329] (fol. 247b).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اعلى معالم العلم واعلامه واظهر شعاير الشرع واحكامه
Explicit: والغنى لا يحتاج الى صرف هذه الغلّة لغناه والله اعلم بالصواب تم النصف
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and flap. Blind tooled and stamped. Rebacked.

Discovery Information

Subject
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Bidāyat al-mubtadī
Islamic law—History—12th century—Sources
Hanafites—History—12th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
247

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3ab1936b-4002-492b-a282-226f8bf6f51e/manifest