Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1221Yq

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DS ID:

DS15681

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1221Yq

Title:

Hidāyah

Author:

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

Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani WIKIDATA

Date:

1329

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 240 leaves: paper ; 290 x 170 (215 x 125) mm. bound to 290 x 190 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol. 7a.
Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Soft biscuit paper, hardly translucid, with pulp visible. Fol. 1 and 240 are later additions (European paper). Marginal annotations. Table of contents on fol. 3b-5b. Biographical note on the author, excerpted from Ṭabaqāt al-ʻulamāʼ, and verses of poetry in praise of this book on fol. 1a...
Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "188". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1039".
Origin: According to colophon, completed in --- Ābād by ...? on 12 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 729 [Sept. 7, 1329] (fol. 247b).
From the books of ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, known as Ibn Dazdār (ownership statement, fol. 3a). Impression of a seal on fol. 7a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Islamic bookbinding

Islamic law

Hanafites

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

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9954041643506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3ab1936b-4002-492b-a282-226f8bf6f51e/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University