Islamic Law [IO Islamic 2126] مَمْزُوج

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2126 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 265 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 265. 2126. Size 121/2 in. by 73/4 in.; foll. 239. Twenty-six, afterwards between twenty-nine and thirty-one lines in a page. A Commentary (ممزوج) on the کنز الدقائق, by (Badr al-dîn) Abu Muḥammad Maḥmûd b. Aḥmad ‘AINÎ (d. A.H. 855). CF. Ḥ. Kh. v. 250. It has been printed at Bûlâk, A.H. 1285 Plainly written. In two volumes. The original hand terminating, however, shortly after the beginning of the second volume (fol. 124), the remainder has been supplied from another copy, which was transcribed by Molla Dâ’ûd b. بریم. At the end is the date of the author’s copy, viz., Cairo, Dhû-alḥijjah, 818. Frequent marks in the shape of flowers on the margin, indicating the beginnings of new chapters. Defects after foll. 15 and 85. Worm-eaten. [College of Fort William, 1825.]