Islamic Law [IO Islamic 2059]

Law: Ḥanafite.This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2059 in the India Office collections.[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 203 here with further notations and hyperlinks].203.2059. Size 81/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 97. From fifteen to twenty-two lines in a page.Another copy of the مختصر القدوری, somewhat differing from the preceding.It begins: هذا کتاب الطهارة یا ایها الذین آمنوا, and concludes with two Persian verses. Boldly written. Occasional notes. Interleaved with European paper, the first few pages of which contain notes and explanations in English.This Ms. came into the possession of A Locket, at Baghdâd, A.D. 1811. The following note is on the title-page: قد انتقل فی تصرفی تولیة من الحاج عبدالفتاح افندی امام جامع حسین باشا, and some notes in Turkish, in the same hand, are on the last page. The MS. had been a وقف.[Coll. Fort William, 1825.]