Extent: 412 leaves : paper ; 294 x 195 (210 x 112) mm. bound to 295 x 202 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 1b. Copied in the town of [Gümrandar?] by Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá and completed in the middle of Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 980 (1572) -- colophon (fol. 411a). 25 lines per page. Written in a medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a single line frame in red ink. On fol. 1b-2a the text frames are in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece (ʻunwān) executed in gold leaf with blue watercolor, and with title in black ink in the centre. Glazed paper with chain lines and... Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
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