Islamic Law [IO Bijapur 60]

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 60 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 245 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 245.B 60. Size 91/2 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 114. From seventeen to twenty-four lines in a page.Another Commentary on the Sirâjîyah, imperfect at the beginning. According to the inscription, which is repeated on the first leaf of each quire, it is الضوء or ضوء السراج, by (Shams al-dîn Abu’l-‘alâ) MAḤMÛD B. ABU BAKR b. Abu’l-‘alâ Bukhârî KALÂBÂDÎ (d. A.H. 700), who completed his work in A.H. 676. See Ḥ. Kh. iv. 121, 404, and Cat. Bodl. i. 82 sq.The text of the Sirâjîyah is introduced by قال. The commentary is concluded by an appendix on different questions (فصل فی لواحق الکتاب, fol. 109), which is not mentioned by Ḥ. Kh.1 No date or epilogue is found in this MS. Clearly written, of the tenth century. Some notes.The first sixteen foll. are missing. Begins: النسبیّة و مولی العتاقة. 1 He mentions, however, such an appendix with another commentary on the work, iv. 400.