Extent: 678 leaves: paper ; 268 x 165 (178 x 110) mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from fol. 1a (partly covered by a repair). Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a border in gold outlined in black, black and blue. Dark cream friable paper, hardly translucid, with laid lines visible. Illuminated headpiece on fol. 1b, in gold and colors with a floral motif. Basmallah written in white in a cartouche. Most quires have 12 leaves, a... Inscription on a label pasted on the doublure of the upper cover: "19". Thee spine labels with inscriptions in Arabic script, respectively: "120" ; "Ṣiḥāḥ-i Jawharī [next line] khaṭṭ [next line] Jild 1 [next line] numrah 172" ; "147". Origin: Copy completed on Friday 28 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1007 [Oct. 1598] by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al- al-Makkī al-Mālikī (colophon, fol. 675a-b). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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