Extent: 586 leaves: paper ; 255 x 175 (175 x 125) mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from colophon (fol. 586a). Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and entries. The script changes in parts of the copy. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Entries repeated on the margin in black ink. Fol. 1 is a later added fly-leaf with inscriptions, including ownership statements, several shahādah, and the impression of a seal. Several... Two spine label: one vertical, with inscription in Roman script: "R5" ; the other horizontal, partly wanting, with the inscription in Arabic script as extant: "Ṣiḥāḥ al-Jawharī". Collation: Paper, fol. 586 ; i (later added fly-leaf; European paper with watermark, fol. 1 in the modern foliation) 116 (-1, beginning of quire) 218 3-416 518 6-1516 16 (16 leaves, not clear) 1716 1818 1914 20-2216 2318 2416 2510 268 (+1, end of quire, fol. 409) 27-3416 35-3618 3716 (-3, end of quire) ; most quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see fol. 33a, 197a) ; note the "thānī min... Origin: Copy completed by Aḥmad ibn shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-ARāNī(?) in the beginning of Muḥarram 701 [Sept. 1301] in Mashhad al-Imām al-aʻẓam qudāt al-ʻArab wa-al-ʻAjam Abī Ḥanīfah Nuʻmān ibn Thābit [madrasah in Baghdād] (colophon, fol. 586a). Copyist: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-ARāNī(?). Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Blind stamped mandorla on the covers. Small roundel on the point of the envelope flap. Paper pastedowns. Spine and fore-edge flap repaired. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.
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