Extent: 175 leaves: paper ; 270 x 180 (175 x 115) mm.
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger, according to Hitti, P. Garrett coll. 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The commented text is written in red. Soft light cream paper with laid and chain lines, and pulp visible. Table of contents on fol. 1b-2a, with seal in red. Several inscriptions on fol. 2b-4a, including verses of poetry and ownership statements (see provenance note). Fol. 4b-6a: Blank. On fol. 6b-7a: Biographical... Copy completed on Yawm al-Aḥad 28 Shaʻbān 889 by Fatḥ Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Afghānī al-Shāfiʻī (colophon, fol. 175b). On the margins of fol. 175b: collation statement dated Yawm al-Ithnayn 27 Jumādá II 911 [1505] ; date of completion of the commentary of the Alfīyah by Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsá al-Abnāsī, 13 Shawwāl 765 [1364]. Two ownership statements on fol. 3a, signed ʻAlī ibn --- (ʻAjlān?) al-Ḥusaynī al-ʻImādī and ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Sālim al-Turkmānī, dated 1141 H. Several ownership statements on fol. 9a, one signed Quṭb ibn ʻAlā al-Dīn, dated 964. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).
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