Extent: i, 40, i leaves: paper ; 171 x 114 (110 x 63) mm. bound to 170 x 115 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from inscription on fol. 1a. Physical description: lines per page. Written in. Marginal and interlinear annotations, apparently by the sma ehand as the main text, chiefly excerpted from texts entitled "Wāfīyah" and "Ṣāfiyah". European paper with watermark. Pagination in black ink using Arabic numerals. Chiefly quinions. The last words of each verso are repeated on the next recto. Inscription in Arabic script on a label apsted on the upper cover: "Ṣ thā". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1594". Origin: According to colophon, copied by Khuṭāfi Zādah al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻUbayd Allāh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj Aḥmad, known as Sayyid, at the end (salkh) of Shawwāl 1226 [Nov. 1811] (p. 69). Impression of a circular seal on fol. 1a, with inscription: "al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm" (repeated on p. 69). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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