Abstract: "First volume of Marghinānī's commentary on his Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼAbstract: a treatise on Ḥanafī lawAbstract: comprising Kitāb al-Ṭahārah to Kitāb al-Waqf."Binding note: Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Covered with marbled paper.Ms. codex.Title from note on fol. 2a.Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in small casual nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Cream paper with laid and chain lines visible (a few leaves are dyed in orange). Fol. 1 is a latter addition on European paper. Marginal annotations (important on the first folios). Table of contents on fol. 1b. Several inscriptions and short excerpts, including an erased ownership statement on fol. 2a. Several prayers and sayings from the Prophet on fol. 297b-298b. Fol. 299: Blank. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals.Origin: Copy completed on Sunday 21 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 833 Dec. 18, 1429 (in numerals) by Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm (colophon, fol. 297b).Collation: Paper, fol. 301 ; 1¹⁰ (-1 at the beginning of the quire, +1 later added European paper) 2-29¹⁰ 30¹⁰ (+1, last fol.) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Former shelfmark: Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1640". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a spine label (vertical): "122".Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اعلى معالم العلم واعلامه واظهر شعار الشرع واحكامه
