Extent: 75 leaves : paper ; 205 x 142 (145 x 95) mm. bound to 205 x 142 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from fol. 2b. Copied by Ibrahim bin Ali and completed in the last 10 days of Ramaḍān 1127 (1715) -- colophon (fol. 66a). Ca. 16 lines per page. Written in a medium naskh with elements of ruqʻah in black ink. Text is written in a single raw of 7, 8 or 10 interlocking couplets (i.e. alternating between right and left handside). Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Thick, glazed European paper. Ms. additions: Fol. 2a has an abjad table of letters with their corresponding numerical values. End of the text on fol. 66a is followed by a short note, in what appears to be the same hand, concerning a Kapıcıbaşı Çelebi Seyit Fehmi Mehmet Aǧa and the date March 1103/1692 (date of his death?). Fol. 66b-69b have an added text in Arabic in ʻIlm al-Ḥurūf, written diagonally accross the pages in a... Ownership signature in the name of el-Hac İbrahim, dated 1215 (1800-01) on fol. 2a. Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.
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