Principles of Jurisprudence [IO Bijapur 320] مُخْتَصَرالمُنْتَهَى

Principles of Jurisprudence.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 320 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 298 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

298.

B 320. Size 81/2 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 46. Thirty-two or thirty-three lines in a page.

IBN ḤÂJIB's (Jamâl al-dîn Abu ‘Amr ‘Othmân b. ‘Omar Mâlikî, d. A.H. 646 [=1249 CE]) مختصر المنتهی, or Principles of Jurisprudence, being an abridged edition of his منتهی السؤل. See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 170 sqq.

Begins:

الحمدلله رب العالمین ... اما بعد فانی رأیت قصور الهمم الخ

Concludes:

اتفق فراغ مصنفه منه فی السادس من شهر الله الحرام رمضان فی المقام الشریف شرفه الله مکة داخل الحرم مقابل المیزاب و الحمدلله

Written in a small hand, of the ninth century. The first leaf and the concluding portion supplied by more modern hands.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1026 [= 1617 CE]. “Present of the child of Shâh Nawâz Khân” (پیشکش فرزند شاه نواز خان) [ed. note: Shāh Nawāz Khān died in 1647 CE and is buried in Bijapur.]

Cat. 229, viii. 1.