Principles of Jurisprudence [299]

Principles of Jurisprudence. This manuscript is now IO Islamic B323 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 299 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 299. B 323. Size 9 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 49. Twenty-nine lines in a page. A Commentary on the preceding work, by ‘AḌUD AL-DÎN ÎJÎ (‘Abd al-raḥmân b. Aḥmad. d. A.H. 756). See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 171, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 724. The original text and the commentary are distinguished by the words قال and اقول. This is the only commencement of the work, the rest of the MS. having been lost. Closely written in a small Nasta’liḳ hand, with marginal notes. Stained by damp. An ornament at the beginning contains an inscription, according to which this MS. was part of the plunder brought from Muḥammadâbâd-Bîdar, and came into the Bîjâpûr Library in A.H. 1027. Signature of Ibrâhîm Nauras (‘Âdil Shâh II.), with a seal bearing the inscription عنایة الازلیة، کفایة الابدیة. Cat. 299, v. 5.