Extent: i, 172, iii leaves : paper ; 195 x 135 (135 x 100) mm. bound to 195 x 145 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from colophon (fol. 171b). Physical description: 16 lines per page. Written in medium small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red and blue. Rough dark cream paper, with irregular laid lines visible. The edges of some leaves have not been trimmed. Fol. 1-2 are later added fly-leaves. Fol. 83-84 are replacements on blue paper. Subject headings written in black, red, or blue on the margins. Marginal annotations. A few slips... A letter originally placed between fol. 43 and 44 is now shelved separately. Inscription in a Caucasian language on a slip of paper placed between fol. 4 and 5 (see The Library of Imam Shamil, p. 128, n. 19). Collation: Paper, fol. i, 172, iii ; i (free endpaper; marbled recto) ii (later added fly-leaves; fol. 1-2 in the modern foliation in pencil)1-1710 ii (later added fly-leaves) i (free endpaper; marbled verso) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "1401/2 Ḥ". Origin: Copy completed by Rajab ibn Ḍandar(?) on a Sunday in Dhū al-Ḥijjah [no year] (colophon, fol. 171b). The script and paper indicate that this copy is of the same origin as the other MSS from the entourage of Imām Shamīl (Dagestan). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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