Extent: 135 leaves: paper ; 280 x 206 (207 x 150) mm.
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Physical description: 25 lines per page; the last words of each verso are written on the left portion of a 26th line. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and entries. The text is vocalized. Thin friable light cream paper, with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 3-6 are later replacements. Marginal annotations. Several inscriptions on fol... Origin: According to colophon, copied by ...?, and completed on a Thursday in Jumādá al-Ūlá 732(?) [1332] (fol. 125b; a note by a later hand on the right margin of the colophon mentions the date 739 [1338]). Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, including one in the name of Muḥibb Allāh ibn Taqī al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī; of Muḥammad ʻĀbid ibn ʻAlāʾ al-Dīn; of Ṣādiq ... (obliterated), dated 1111 H. Erased large circular seal (350 mm.) on fol. 1a. Two impressions of a circular seal (210 mm.) on fol. 135b. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
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