Extent: 103 leaves : paper ; 212 x 164 (165 x 105) mm bound to 212 x 164 mm.
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Ms. composite codex. Title from lower and upper edges of text block. Ms. additions: 1 loose sheet with a talisman in black ink: 3 large concentric circles in the middle, with series of numbers in the centre with invocations around them; surrounded by 7 small circles, each with different combinations of the words Allāh and Muḥammad. 1 loose, folded sheet with a letter, in Arabic, from Muḥammad al-Mahdī al-Sanūsī (1844-1902), the son of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī... Layout: 27 lines per page. Description: Rubricated ; written in a medium small taʻlīq with elements of ruqʻah in black ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Two different types of glazed European paper. Origin: Both main texts and the short preliminary text appear to be in the same hand. Text 2 is signed by the scribe and dated: copied by Derviş Ebubekir in 1202 (1787-88) -- colophon text 2 (fol. 27b). The ink and the paper in text 3 are different and thus, although possibly written by the same scribe, the text is probably of a slightly later date. Ownership signature, accompanied by a faint circular stamp in blue ink, in the name of Süleyman Efendi on fol. 1a. Same stamp on fol. 2a. Another stamp in black ink on fol. 2b. Ownership statement in the name of Derviş Ahmet Efendi, dated Rabīʻ al-Awwal [?] 1336 (Dec. 1917-Jan. 1918), on fol. 28a. Same fol. has a completely obliterated stamp of a previous owner, and the same of fol. 28b.
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