Principles of Jurisprudence [IO Islamic 3095] التصریح بغوامض التلویح

Principles of Jurisprudence.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 3095 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 327 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

327.

3095. Size 81/4 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 135. Nineteen lines in a page.

Glosses on the Talwîḥ, entitled التصریح بغوامض التلویح, by ‘ABDALLAH LABÎB (الملقب باللبیب), son of ‘Abd al-ḥakîm Siyâlkûtî. These glosses were written by the author in his early youth, under the superintendence of his father, and include the glosses of the latter, described under the preceding no. Cf. [Charles] Stewart’s Catal. 148, xxix (?).

Beginning:

الحمدلله الذی اشرق زروع المجتهدین بانوار اصوله، و اورق فروع صوادی الدین بمدار شموله

The first gloss is: او تضمين مذهبان الخ(قوله)

Neatly written in Nasta’liḳ. Imperfect at the end, and injured by insects.

Seals of H. Vansittart and C. Boddam, with several inscriptions in the handwriting of the latter.