The first sketches on the oxford manuscript of "mahasin al-sharia" by al-qaffal al-shashi

The author of this article writes about manuscript one of the ancient books written on the philosophy of Islamic Law, which is currently kept at Weston library of Bodleian libraries. She tries to analyze the manuscript from codicological perspective and gives valuable conclusions on the subject. The manuscript of Mahasin, which we have studied directly there, is kept in the Huntington Collection of the Bodleian Libraries of Oxford University under the name Mahasin al-Shari'a, No. 259. As for the dimensions of the manuscript, the book is 26.5 cm long, 18 cm wide and 5.5 cm thick. Each page contains 25 lines of text, with an average of 17 words used per line. The pages are arranged not by numbers, but by footnotes, as was typical for manuscripts of that period.