كتاب صدر الشريعة.

Kitāb Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1487]
Description
245 leaves : paper ; 280 x 175 (185 x 92) mm. bound to 275 x 190 mm.

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    Summary note
    A commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, a work on fiqh by the author's grandfather, Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī (d. 1274 or 5). As for the work itself, Wiqāyat al-riwāyah is an epitome of the work called al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 1196 or 7).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from fol. 11b.
    • Copy completed in Rajab 892 (1487) by Muḥammad Aḥmad bin Amīn al-Dīn -- colophon (fol. 242b).
    • 21 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Foliation in Arabic numerals in red ink and in Western numerals in pencil. Glazed cream paper with visible laid lines. Extensive marginal annotations throughout. Paper very fragile, especially the first third of the ms, with some loss of text. Extensive repairs to paper at the start, with white and thick blue paper. Ff. 1a-2a, 4a-7b, 11a and 243a-b have numerous short inscriptions and excerpts, chiefly in Arabic, with some on the replacement sheets at the start in Ottoman. Ff. 8-10 are a table of contents added later on a dark blue replacement paper of smaller dimensions (222 x 170 mm), and written in black and red ink.
    • Incipit: يقول العبد المتوسل الى الله تع باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة ... هذا حل المواضع المغلقة من وقاية الرواية فى مسايل الهداية
    • Explicit: ومع ذلك يباح التناول اعتمادا على الغالب والله اعلم
    Binding note
    Brown leather with envelope flap. Blind tooled panel design on covers, consisting of a central mandorla (blind stamped with cream leather pasted over) with 8 fillets radiating towards 2 smaller mandorlas, 4 corner pieces and small rosetta stamps, all within several blind fillets around the borders of covers. The envelope flap has a similar design with a mandorla and fillets around edges and through the centre. Blind tooled panel design on fore edge flap, made with fillets in a diced pattern. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in light blue paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in dark blue fabric.
    Language note
    Arabic.
    Provenance
    Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 1026
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 468 (I, cmt. a)
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 646
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    • Ḥall al-mawāḍiʻ al-mughlaqah min Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah
    • حل المواضع المغلقة من وقاية الرواية في مسائل الهداية
    OCLC
    1340392089
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