Extent: 286 leaves : paper ; 254 x 168 (184 x 108) mm. bound to 255 x 174 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 2b. Copied by Mehmet ibn Yezid (this being the last book he copied), and completed on the first of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 961 (1554) -- colophon (fol. 285b). The colophon also has a reading statement in the name of Ahmet ibn ... [?] Solak. 17 lines per page. Written in a medium small vocalised naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written in two columns inside a double line frame in red ink. On fol. 2b-5a the text frames are in gold leaf outlined in black ink, and on fol. 2b-3a with an additional line in red ink. Fol. 1b has an illumnated head piece (ʻunwān), consisting of a flower pattern in gold ink and... Stamp of "Maktabat al-ʻArab" bookshop of Shaikh Yūsuf Tūmā al-Bustānī, Egypt, on fol. 285b. Statement of gift from Yūsuf Tūmā al-Bustānī to John Owen, dated 25/7/1935 on fol. 2a. From the estate of John Owen of Washington, Iowa (two ownership stamps, on front pastedown and fol. 1a.).
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