Principles of Jurisprudence [IO Bijapur 354]

Principles of Jurisprudence.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 354 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 279 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

279.

B 354. Size 121/2 in. by 73/4 in.; foll. 312. Forty-two or forty-three lines in a page.

The second part of a Commentary on Nawawî’s abstract of Shâfi’ite Law, منهاج الطالبین, by Kamâl al-dîn Muḥammad b. Mûsa DAMÎRÎ (d. A.H. 808 = 1405 CE), who completed it A.H. 786, and entitled it النجم الوهّاج. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 208; Cat. Bodl. i. 77, and ii. 573; and also Wüstenfeld, Das Leben und die Schriften des al-Nawawî, p. 50.

This part extends from کتاب النکاح to the end. The text of the Minhâj is introduced by قال.

Plainly written; finished in Rajab, 895 (بین الصلوتین یوم الاحد من شهر الله الاصب رجب المرجب), by Zain al-dîn b. سمرجی b. Ḥâjjî Maḥmûd Khunjî.1 The last leaves are injured.

Signatures of several owners on the title-page, the earliest that of Ṣadr al-sharî’ah, “a descendant (سبط) of Abu ‘Abdallah, the author of الحاوی” (i.e. of Najm al-dîn ‘Abd al-ghaffâr Ḳazwînî, d. A.H. 665).2 Bîj. Libr., A.H. 992.

Cat. 227, iv. 2.