Extent: 103 leaves : paper ; 185 x 110 (122 x 64) mm
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Ms. composite codex. Collective title supplied by cataloger, from title for text 4. Marginal notes and crossouts. Collation: Paper ; fol. 103 ; catchwords. Layout: 11-15 lines per page. Description: Written in nastaʻliq in black ; rubricated ; leaf 12 appears to belong after leaf 14 ; MS consists of parts of two different codices, consisting of leaves 1-48 and leaves 49-103. Extensive insect damage and paper repairs. Covers detached. Paper: Cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Origin: [Risālah-i Ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm ] Date of composition given in chronogram on leaf 17a is 981 H; this copy completed 9 Jumādá I 1105 H [6 January 1694] (leaf 48b). On leaf 2a, owner's stamp dated 1256 H [1840 or 1841]. On leaf 49a, note outlining to whom the writer has given ijāzahs and from whom he has received them; accompanied by two stamps of Muḥammad Farrukh ibn Rukn-i Dīn Rashīd (likely the writer of the note). Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.
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