Islamic Law [IO Bijapur 339]

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 339 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 269 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 269. B 339. Size 81/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 245. Twenty-five lines in a page. هذا شرح لطیف مختصر منیف للعلامة المحقق ملا مسکین علی الکنز للعلامة النسفی الخ. A concise Commentary (ممزوج) on the same work, by Molla MISKÎN (Mu’în al-dîn Muḥammad Harawî). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 251. Glosses on it are to be found in Aumer, Hdss. Münch., p. 93. This commentary begins without a preface, الحمد هو الوصف بالجمیل الاختیاری. Various old authorities are quoted in it. Written in a small hand, and dated 18th Jum. I., 1011. The scribe gives his name as Muḥammad b. Aḥmad الشلبی Ḥanafî. Gold and blue lines round each page. Notes in the earlier portion. A slight defect after fol. 33, and a larger one after fol. 177. Fol. 43 mutilated. Injured by damp. Cat. 228, xiii.