Fols. 286; 19 x 14 cm.; written surface 15.5 x 11.5 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.
A commentary on al-Fiqh al-nāfiʻ, a work on ḥanafite law by Nāṣir al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Samarqandī al-Madanī, A.H. 556 [A.D. 1161].
Beg.: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي امد اولىا.ه في العاجلة
Colophon: وقع الفراغ من تحرىر هذه النسخة الشرىفة ىوم الاربعاء في اول عشر من شهر ذي الحجة سنة اثنىن وستىن وسبعمائة سنة 762
Marginal notes. MS in good condition; Arabic binding with flap.
Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, pp. 290/1; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 130; A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 208.
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