Principles of Jurisprudence [330] الكوكب الدري

• Principles of Jurisprudence.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic B326 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 330 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

330.

B 326. Size about 8^3/4 in. by 5^1/2 in.; foll. 64. Twenty-five lines in a page.

کتاب الکوکب الدریّ فی تخریج الفروع علی قواعد العربیّة للاسنای.²

A treatise by the same author (i.e. Isanwī), on the Grammatical Elements of Jurisprudence, being a sort of supplement to the preceding work, during the progress of which it was begun. See Ḥ. Kh. v. 263 sq., and also ii. 424.

The date of the author runs as follows:

قال مولفه رضه و کان الفراغ (منه) فی اثناء سنة ثمان و ستین و سبعمائة سوی زیادات الحقتها بعد ذلک

Written by the same hand as the preceding MS., to which it corresponds in all particulars of origin and authenticity. The original copy had been revised by Ibrâhîm Dimyâṭî, A.H. 771, and declared by the author to contain the standard version. Date, Monday, 15^th Rabî’ II., 794 [=28 February 1393 which however seems to have been Friday].

Various poems in praise of the author are at the beginning and end of the book, in the same hand.

² Supposed to be the inscription of the author’s copy, کانه هو صورة خط المؤلف.