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An epitome of the work al-Hidāyah, the commentary of al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī on his own Bidāyat al-mubtadī, a work on Hanafite law.
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- Publisher
- 879 [1474 or 1475]
- People
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- Author
- Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh, -1274 or 1275
- برهان الشريعة، محمود بن عبيد الله، -1274 or 1275
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 840H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
An epitome of the work al-Hidāyah, the commentary of al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī on his own Bidāyat al-mubtadī, a work on Hanafite law.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- وقاية الرواية / لبرهان الشريعة.
- Transliterated Title
- Wiqāyat al-riwāyah / li-Burhān al-Sharīʻah.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 840H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1831cx27v
- Publisher
- 879 [1474 or 1475]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1474
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- IV, 173 leaves : paper ; 267 x 182 (165 x 105) mm bound to 265 x 180 mm.
- Provenance
- Seal impression (fol. Ia). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1680.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 458.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 148/9.
- Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 285.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from later title page (fol. IVa).
- Heavily annotated with marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Title on the lower edge of the text block. Several inscriptions including masāʼil and a waqf statement on folios IVa-1a.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. IV + 173 + iii ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 11 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpapers only: three crescents; cross on hills and roman-alphabet letters "SCS 1722") ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed 879 by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad (fol. 173b).
- Incipit: بسم اللهالرحمن الرحيم وبه العون حمد لمن جعل العلم اجل المواهب الهنيّه واسناها واعلى المراتب السنية ... وبعد فان الولد الاعثر عبيد الله صرف الله ايامه فيما يحبه ...
- Colophon: تمت بعون الله وحسن توفيق. حرره اضعف عباد الله واحوجهم الى رحمته ابرهيم بن محمد غفرالله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه. في تاريخ سنة تسع وسبعين ثمانمائة
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped central design and decorative edging. Flap is missing.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 370
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a12aea98-f0b3-4cc3-b625-b3d7de448e8f/manifest