Extent: i + 257 + i leaves: paper ; 250 x 160 (168 x 100) mm. bound to 257 x 167 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from note on fol. 1a. The same title appears in the colophon. 25 lines per page. Written in small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Interlinear and marginal ḥāshiyah, apparently by the same hand as the main text. Soft cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Several short texts, verses of poetry in Persian and ownership statements in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish on fol. 1a. Fol. i (fol. 1 in the modern foliation in pencil) is a later addition on... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Lisān tā 12(?)". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 390". Copy completed in 844 H. (colophon, fol. 257a, = 258a in the modern foliation in pencil). Ownership statement in the name of ʻĀrif Muḥammad Ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Sinān(?) on fol. (i)a. Three ownership statements on fol. 1a, one hardly legible in Ottoman Turkish, one dated 114, the third signed Nūḥādīʹzādah, al-Sayyid Aḥmad ... al-Shādhilī, with seal reading "al-Sayyid Aḥmad Nūrī", dated 1274 H. [1857-58]. Obliterated seals on fol. 257a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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