Extent: 362 leaves : paper ; 308 x 190 (238 x 130) mm. bound to 310 x 200 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title supplied by the cataloger. Copied by Hafız Osman bin Davut and completed on 11 of Muḥarram 1172 (1758) -- colophon (fol. 362b). Between this and the end of text (see explicit) is what appears to be another colophon (starts with "qad tamma hādhā al-kitāb ...") with the date 17 of Rajab 116? [the word covered with paper repair] (1747-1756). This is in exactly the same hand and perhaps refers to the completion of the... 31 lines per page. Written in a medium naskh in black ink with some use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a single line frame in red ink. The frames on fol. 1b, 2a and 362b are in wide gold leaf outlined in black ink. Fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece executed in gold leaf with orange, red, purple, green and white watercolors, and has gold circles for breaks inside the text...
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