Extent: i, 219, i leaves : paper ; 275 x 180 (190 x 120) mm. bound to 275 x 195 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Physical description: 20-23 lines per page. Written in informal thick taʻlīq in black ink, with use of red for "qāla", "qawluh" and "aqūl, and for re-inking. Thick cream paper, glossy, with pulp visible (laid lines on some leaves). Ḥāshiyah on the margins, apparently by the same hand as the main text. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including a short text... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "...? 67". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 583". Origin: Copy completed by Ḥasan ibn Khalīl in 866 H. [1461 or 2] (colophon, fol. 219b). Waqf statement dated 1247 H. [1831 or 2] or 1347 H. [1928 or 29], for the Darskhānah-yi Shihāb al-Dīn Pāshā, in the hands of al-ḥājj ʻAlī al-ʼrkūbī, from al-ḥājj Muḥammad Āghā Wakīl Ḥusayn Pāshā, with seal (fol. 1a). Ownership statement in the name of Aḥmad Nūr al-Dīn, known as Nūḥādī Zādah, with seal (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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