Extent: 231 leaves : paper ; 181 x 132 (133 x 85) mm. bound to 181 x 140 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from inscription on fol. 4a. Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1-3 and 229-231 are later added fly-leaves (European paper). Marginal annotations. Subject headings written on the margins in black ink. Two verses of poetry in Persian attributed to Khosrow on fol. 1a. Several inscriptions in Arabic... Collation: Paper, fol. 231 ; iii (later added fly-leaves, fol. 1-3 in the modern foliation) + 110 (-1, at the beginning of quire) 2-1710 186 19-2110 228 2312 + iii (later added fly-leaves, fol. 229-231 in the modern foliation) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Lisān 32". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "645/2 Ḥāʼ". Origin: The date 890 [1485 or 6] or 895 [1489 or 90] in Arabic numerals is written at the end of the text (fol. 228b). From the books of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement dated 11 R[abīʻ al-]A[wwal] 78 on fol. 1a). Ownership statement in the name of Masʻūd and erased seal on fol. 4a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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