• كتاب البداية على مذهب امام الاعظم ابي حنيفة
  • Kitāb al-Bidāyah ʻalá madhhab Imām al-aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah

Collections:
  • Robert Garrett
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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Language:
  • Arabic
Creator:
  • Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197
  • مرغيناني، علي بن ابي بكر
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 113Y
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • i, 152, i leaves: paper ; 240 x 160 (175 x 125) mm. bound to 247 x 170 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from fol. 1a. It appears in the preamble of the text as Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ (fol. 1b).
  • Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in casual medium large naskh in black ink, with larger script for headings. Thick light biscuit (some leaves peach) paper with thick laid lines and some chain lines visible. Fol. 1 is apparently a later addition. Marginal and interlinear annotations. Title on the tail of text block (hardly legible).
  • Origin: Copy completed on 15 Shaʻbān 831(?) [May 1428] in Aleppo in the Madrasat al-... by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʻAlī ibn Hāshim al-Ḥanafī (colophon, fol. 152b).
  • Incipit: كتاب البداية ... ابى حنيفى رحمه الله لا اله الا الله عدة للقائه الحمد لله الذى هدانا الى بالغ حكمه والص[لوة] على رسوله ... قال العبد الضعيف على ابن ابى بكر بن عبد الجليل المرغيانى وفقنا الله لما فى الذكر الجميل والدخر الجزيل كان يخطار ببالى ... [2أ] كتاب [الطهارة] قال الله عز وجل يا ايها الذين امنوا قمتم الى الصلاخ الاية ففرض [---] غسل الاعضا الثلثة
  • Explicit: كتاب الخنثى واذا كان للمولود فرح وذكر ... [152أ] ... واكل وان كانت الميتة اكثر او نصفين لم توكل تم الكتاب والله الموفق للصواب
Publisher:
  • Aleppo, [ 1428?]
Subject:
  • Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—12th century
  • Hanafites—12th century
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Title sort:
  • Kitāb al-Bidāyah ʻalá madhhab Imām al-aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah.
Alternative:
  • Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ
  • Matn al-Hidāyah
  • متن الهداية
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
  • Syria
Binding note:
  • Western style binding with black paper over pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and black leather for spine. Gilt on spine bands. Gilt title in Arabic script on spine.Pink paper pastedown and free endpaper.
Provenance:
  • Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References:
  • Mach, R. Yahuda, 1008
  • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 376 (24/I) ; SI
Author:
  • Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197
Created:
  • 1428-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1428
Abstract:
  • Treatise on Ḥanafī furūʻ.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/47429c73w
Location:
  • HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 113Y
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 113Y
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Uniform title:
  • Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ
  • بداية المبتدئ
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