Fols. 285; 17.7 x 13.6 cm.; written surface 13 x 8.2 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Fārisi and naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red. A collection containing: 1. A commentary by Yaʻqūb ibn Sayyid ʻAlī d. after A.H. 931 [A.D. 1524/5] on Gulistān, by the Persian poet Saʻdī, A.H. 691 [A.D. 1291/2]. Copy is in Fārisi and is written by the author. Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 230. 2. A page of al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah and another fragment of a commentary on a philosophical work. This fragment was made A.H. 870 [A.D. 1465/6] by Ṣafar Shāh ibn Ṭūrsūn. 3. A fragment from Mughnī al-labīb ʻan kutub al-aʻārib, a treatise on syntax by Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Hishām, A.H. 761 [A.D. 1360] containing a detailed exposition of the particles and the rules for the construction of sentences. Copy made A.H. 992 [A.D. 1584] by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Nāṣirī al-Shāfiʻī. A few marginal notes and glosses. MS in fair condition but worm-eaten; Arabic leather binding; blind stamped and tooling. Front cover missing. Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
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