Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Hidāyah.
الهداية

Authors

• Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, -1196 or 1197
  مرغيناني، علي بن أبي بکر

Other related names

• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, donor
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 143
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9968531063503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/954274741
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6853106 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms143.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1699?

Summary

Legal treatise written as a commentary on another of al-Marghīnānī's works, Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ. Extensive tables of contents added to beginning of work.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   
• Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
   

Extent

478 leaves : 265 x 185 (180 x 110) mm bound to 270 x 195 mm

Foliation

Paper, 478; [i-vii, [i], viii-ix], 1-18, 18-48, 50-76, 78-87, 89-150, 150, 152-176, 178-187, 189-231, 233-240, 242-301, 303-307, 309-312, 312-321, [i], 322-423, 425-447, 447-474, foliation in red ink, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-stamped medallions on covers and flap; spine and flap hinge limp and damaged.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate, inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic law--Early works to 1800
• Hanafites--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, 17th century

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

  Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

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