Descriptive Information

Title

[وقاية الرواية في مسائل الهداية]

Transliterated Title

[Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah]

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 743Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5m60qv51k

Publisher

[1388 or 1389]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1388

Format

Manuscript

Extent

133 leaves : paper ; 255 x 168 (160 x 95) mm. bound to 268 x 180 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, 1025

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 468 (Ausz. 1)

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 646

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by the cataloger.

Copied by Haṣan ibn ʻĀdil ibn Yūsuf al-Qasṭamūnī in 790 (1388-89) -- colophon (fol. 133b).

13 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil. Thick dark cream glazed paper visible laid lines. Extensive marginal and within the text annotation throughout. Some damage to paper, chiefly at the beginning and end of the ms, with some repairs and some loss of text. Fol. 1a has a duʻāʼ for the Yawm al-ʻĀshūrāʼ, and fol. 2a has several excerpts in Arabic. Oblong ownership stamp on fol. 3a.

Incipit: حمد من جعل العلم اجل المواهب الهنية واسناها واعلي المراتب السنية واسماها احسن ما يفتتح به الكلام

Explicit: وفي غنم مذبوحة فيها ميتة وهي اقل تحرى واكل في الاختيار

Binding Note

Brown leather with envelope flap (the flap is loose). Blind tooled panel design on covers, made with fillets and an ornamental blind roll around borders, and fillets, together with small flower stamps and circular stamps with word "sharaf", to form triangular corner pieces of the panel. Blind stamped circular medallion in the centre of upper and lower covers, with small flower stamps with outward radiating fillets and small circular gold stamps around the edges. Blind tooled design on envelope flap consists of an ornamental blind roll and blind fillets around the edges, with the inner area is fully tooled in an 'arabesque' design. Circular stamp in the centre, plain with a smaller area inside tooled with the same 'arabesque' motif, and several small circular gold stamps inside and around the circle. Spine repaired in a different brown leather. Fore edge flap is missing. The envelope flap has a leather lining.

Discovery Information

Subject

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

141

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1c5d898f-3d7f-4d9d-9e12-e456e09312c1/manifest

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