Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3593Yq

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DS ID:

DS15678

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 3593Yq

Title:

al-Niṣf al-awwal min Kitāb al-Hidāyah allatī hiya min aʻẓam kutub al-Ḥanīfīyah /

Author:

Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197 / مرغيناني، علي بن ابي بكر

Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani WIKIDATA

Date:

1284

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 258 leaves: paper ; 265 x 180 (165 x 115) mm. bound to 268 x 200 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a; up to Abū al-Ḥasan on a repair).
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Thick soft dark cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid lines visible. Mainly quinions, catchword on most verso. Fol. 1 and 258 are later additions (European paper). Marginal annotations by several hands. Some leaves are crudely repaired with loss of marginalia. The modern foliation in pencil...
Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "A264a". Inscriptions in Roman script in pencil on fol. 1a: "255 Bl. / vol. I / A264a".
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Ismāʻīl, who completed his work on Friday 7 Ramaḍān 683 [Nov. 17, 1284] (fol. 257b). On the margin of the colophon, collation statement, mentioning that the text was collated on the authograph (aṣl al-muṣannif) in 683 H.
From the books of Aḥmad Mahdī ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Ayyūbī al-Anṣārī (ownership statement, fol. 1a). Five ownership and reading statements on fol. 2a, some obliterated or covered by repair, including one ownership statement in the name of al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Sinān kātib al-Sulaymānīyah, mentioning Juzʼ 2 (dated 1166 H., with hardly legible seal); one reading statement dated...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Islamic law

Hanafites

Bidāyat al-mubtadī (Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9954040473506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2ed778f8-1a64-4d9d-a4c5-afcf3ed3a52f/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University