• Daftar al-awwal min al-Hidāyah
  • al-Daftar al-awwal min al-Hidāyah

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. 2592Y
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • i, 289, i leaves: paper ; 265 x 175 (190 x 105) mm. bound to 265 x 180 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from colophon (fol. 288b-289a).
  • Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin light biscuit paper with pulp and laid lines visible. The first 4 fol. are later additions on European paper with watermark. Fol. 26-72, 158-173, and 214-235 in the modern foliation are later replacements. Important marginal annotations on the original leaves. Annotations on pieces of paper pasted between the leaves. The first six folios of the text (fol. 4-9 in the modern foliation in pencil) have the upper part mended, with the text recopied on the repair. Table of contents on fol. 3a-4a. Several inscriptions and short texts on fol. 5a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
  • Origin: Copy completed on Yawm al-Khamīs 10 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 824 [April 1421] by Ṣadr al-Dīn ibn Sharaf al-Dīn ibn ʻAlāʼ al-qāḍī al-Wāshjhī (colophon, fol. 289a).
  • Former shelmark: Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī 442". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1645".
  • Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اعلى معالم العلم واعلامه واظهر شعاير الشرع واحكامه
  • Explicit: في الشرب والنزول والغنىّ لا يحتاج الى صرف هذه الغلّة لغناه والله تعالى اعلم
Publisher:
  • [1421]
Subject:
  • Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197—Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ.
  • Islamic law—Early works to 1800
  • Hanafites—History—12th century—Sources
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Title sort:
  • Daftar al-awwal min al-Hidāyah.
Alternative:
  • Hidāyah sharḥ Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ
  • هداية شرح بداية المبتدئ
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
Binding note:
  • Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a blind stamped panel with a large central madorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and corner pieces. Grey, green and orange marbled paper pastedown and free endpaper.
Provenance:
  • Inscription by Ismāʻīl Ṣidqī in purple ink on fol. 4b and 5a, dated 1317 H. [1899 or 1900]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References:
  • Mach, R. Yahuda, 1011
Author:
  • Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197
Created:
  • 1421-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1421
Abstract:
  • First volume of Marghinānī's commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ, a treatise on Ḥanafī law, comprising Kitāb al-Ṭahārah to Kitāb al-Waqf.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/g158bk897
Location:
  • HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2592Y
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2592Y
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Type:
  • Early works to 1800
  • Sources
Uniform title:
  • Hidāyah. Daftar 1
  • هداية
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