Extent: i, 325, i leaves: paper ; 335 x 230 (245 x 165) mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 2a, hardly legible). Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown). Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Collation notes in black and in red ink. Traces of a decorated panel on fol. 2a. A leaf was apparently pasted on the recto of fol. 2 and on the verso of fol. 325, leaving heavy traces of glue. Fol. 1 is a later addition, with several... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the fore-edge of the enclosing box: "al-Ṣiḥāḥ bi-khaṭṭ Yāqūt al-Malikī 584". Origin: Copied by Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd ʻAllāh (colophon, fol. 324b). Collation statement dated 584 H. [1188 or 9] on fol. 324b. Collation statement on fol. 88a and 324a, stating that the text was collated on a copy written by Abū Sahl al-Harawī (corresponding to the collation notes in red ink). Waqf statement on fol. 324b-325a. Several ownership statements (partly obliterated), one dated 1290 H. [1873 or 4], and note stating that this ms. was stolen and recovered on fol. 1a. Impression of a seal on fol. 2b (repeated on fol. 324b). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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