Extent: 47 leaves : paper ; 180 x 135 (105 x 70) mm. bound to 180 x 145 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from illuminated title page (fol. 2a). Physical description: 8 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid ; frame-ruled. Ḥāshiyah between the lines and on the margin, apparently by the same hand as the main text. Several inscriptions on the pastedown of the upper and lower covers and on fol. 1a-2a, including verses of poetry, ownership... Decoration: Illuminated title page executed in gold, blue, red and white on fol. 2a. One panel outlined in blue with radiating flecks, with a upper part occupied by a panel with the title on a gold and blue ground, and a lower part with a lobed roundel with an illegible inscription on a similar ground. Origin: The copy is not dated. The paper, script and decoration suggest the 14th-15th cent. Illegible portion of the illuminated title page, apparently bearing the name of a patron. Ownership statements on fol. 1a-b and 2a, including one in the name of Yūsuf al-Anṣarī. Ownership statement in the name of Yūsuf Ibn ʻUmar Ibn Yūsuf al-Khālidī al-Naqshbandī, mentioning the Jāmiʻ al-Umawī on fol. 45b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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