Principles of Jurisprudence [IO Bijapur 318] کشف الاسرار

• Principles of Jurisprudence.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 318 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 314 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

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B 318. Size 11^1/2 in. by 6^3/4 in.; foll. 238. Twenty-seven lines in a page.

A copious Commentary (ممزوج) on the Manâr [i.e. [=Nasafī's منار الأنوار في أصول الفقه], the title and author of which are not to be found, this MS. being slightly imperfect both at the beginning and end. It appears, however, from the general terms of the work, and from a comparison of several quotations on the margin of the Lakhnau edition of the نور الانوار,¹ that we have here another commentary by NASAFÎ himself, entitled کشف الاسرار. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 121, and Ibn Ḳuṭlûbugha, ed. Flügel, 22.

There precedes a short introduction, on the sciences of religion and law in general. After this, the commentary begins as follows (fol. 2v.):

و لنشرع الآن بما ذکرتُ فی المنار اعلم ان اصول الشرع ثلثة

Legibly written, of the tenth century; the text often not distinguished from the commentary. Injured at the beginning and in several other places.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1041. Present of Shaikh Ḥabîb جندی (?). Seal of Muḥammad ‘Âdil Shâh on the fly-leaf.

Cat. 229, i. 2.

¹ See below, no. 316.