Islamic Law [IO Islamic 571]

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 571 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 270 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 270. 571. Size 121/4 in. by 61/2 in.; foll. 228. Twenty-one lines in a page. Another copy of the preceding Commentary. The commencement is wanting, and several blanks have been left in the first pages, the original copy having apparently been mutilated. Begins: سواء کان بظاهر الکف (=fol. 4v. of the preceding copy). Plainly written; the original text not distinguished in the latter portion. Worm-eaten, and stained by damp. Described by mistake as هدایة الفقه by the former owner, R. Johnson.