Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah. (Robbins Ms. 297)
Masāʼil shattá (Robbins Ms. 297).
Kitāb al-Farāʼiḍ. (Robbins Ms. 297).

Kitāb al-Wiqāyah.

Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-hidāyah

[Place of publication not identified], 1651-1652.

364 leaves : polished paper ; 200 x 130 mm bound to 203 x 137 mm

A 17th-century collection of texts on Ḥanafī jurisprudence, copied by Muṣṭafā b. ʻAlī, dated Ṣafar 1061 (= February 1651) on folio 227v and Muḥarram 1062 (= January 1652) on folio 263v, including the Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah; an anonymous section on legal matters, titled Masāʼil shattá; and the Kitāb al-Farāʼiḍ, all with extensive commentary. Commentary not fitting on the page was continued on 96 elaborately-shaped inserts. Fly leaves contain notes in Turkish and a detailed table of contents at the end of which the sources for marginal commentary are given.

Ms. codex.
Title from table of contents (fol. iv).
Collation: Polished paper, iii + 360 + i; catchwords. Full leaves 9-363 intermittently foliated 1-263 in Hindi numerals; 96 inserts sewn into manuscript.
Layout: Main text written 15 lines to the page with red catchwords, all within a green frame; abundant commentaries arranged in irregular, wedge-shaped sections radiating from the main text and filling a larger green frame which surrounds the smaller green frame on all sides.
Script: Main text written in a black calligraphic naskhī script; commentaries written in a minute nastaʻlīq script.
Decoration: Main text surrounded by a green frame; commentaries also surrounded by a larger green frame.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law, Robbins MS 297.

Arabic.

Bound in red morocco binding with flap and blind-tooled medallions.

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Robbins MS 297

Arabic