هداية

Hidāyah.

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Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1326 or 1327]
Description
345 leaves: paper ; 260 x 184 (175 x 125) mm. bound to 260 x 190 mm.

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    Summary note
    Second volume of Marghinānī's commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ, a treatise on Ḥanafī law, comprising the text from Kitāb al-Buyūʻ to the end.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from inscription on fol. (ii)a.
    • Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Table of contents and inscription in Ottoman Turkish on fol. (ii)a. Several inscriptions, including kabīkaj and erased ownership statements on fol. 1a. Fol. i and ii are later added endpapers. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (fol. 160-167 and 189-198 of the foliation wanting).
    • Inscription in Arabic script in pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Thālith fiqh 51".
    • Origin: According to colophon, copied in 727 H. (fol. 342b).
    • Incipit: بسم ... وبالله التوفيق والعصمة كتاب البيوع البيع ينعقد بالايجاب والقبول اذا كان
    • Explicit: الانكشاف بخلاف ما اذا كانا نصفين او كانت الميتة اغلب لانه لا ضرورة تمت بعون الله وحسن توفيقه
    Binding note
    Marbled paper covering a binding in brown leather.
    Provenance
    Ownership statement with impression of three seals on fol. (ii)a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Mach, R. Yahuda, 1011
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    212409027
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