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

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 144
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9932271643503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131863763
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_144.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1799?

Summary

First volume of Marghinānī's commentary on his own Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ, a treatise on Ḥanafī law, comprising Kitāb al-Ṭahārah to Kitāb al-Waqf. A leaf is missing between f. 1 and 2 and the copy has several inserted leaves of differing sizes.

Notes

• Titles supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Ii, 269, ii leaves : 277 x 167 (180 x 110) mm bound to 285 x 175 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left; some have been pasted over.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red corduroy textile over cardboard sides with marbled paper doublure; three pieces of red corduroy laid in that at one time formed a fore-edge envelope flap and attached on the front cover with three buttons.

Layout

Written in 19 long lines; extensive marginalia.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Given by John Frederick Lewis to the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside back cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on Lewis' bookplate, inside back cover).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Hidāyah].

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamp
• fol. 1r — Notations in ink
• fol. 269r — Stamp
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "John Frederick Lewis"