Extent: 64, x leaves : paper ; 183 x 135 (125 x 105) mm. bound to 183 x 145 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from inscription on fol. 2a. Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in small cursive nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red mainly for "qawluhu" and overlining. Light cream paper with pulp, laid and chain lines visible. Several inscriptions, including verses of poetry in Persian, on fol. 1a and 2a. Title on tail of text block. Collation: Paper, fol. 64, x ; 1-78 88 (+1, end of quire, fol. 58) 96 + x (later added quinion, European paper) ; last words of the verso repeated at the beginning of the next recto. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Lisān 37". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "Ḥā 936". Origin: Copy completed in 873 by ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm (colophon, fol. 64b). From the books of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement dated 1287 H. [1870 or 71] on fol. 1a). Ownership statement in the name of ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz known as Muʼmin Zade, mudarris in the madrasah Suhayl Bey (fol. 2a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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