Islamic Law [214]

Law: Ḥanafite. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1776 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 214 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 214. 1776. Size 121/2 in. by 8 in.; foll. 174. Twenty lines in a page. The first half of the Hidâyah. Mostly written in an inelegant Nasta’liḳ hand, approaching Shikastah. Dated 25th Rabî’ I., 1017. Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة المعظمة المکرمة المصنفة فی علم الفقه من ید الضعیف النحیف الراجی الی رحمة الله تعالی محمد زمان (؟) بن ملا اله بخش فی یوم الثلثاء فی .. الخامس و العشرون من شهر ربیع الاول سنة ۱۱۷ (sic). Covered with notes. On fol. 174 recipes. Signature of R. Johnson