Extent: 201 leaves : paper ; 280 x 185 (195 x 120) mm. bound to 280 x 190 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from fol. 2a. Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Cream and biscuit paper with laid lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margin. Fol. 1 and 201 are later added fly-leaves (European paper), with table of contents on fol. 1a, and a note on fol. 201a. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 14". Origin: Copy completed in Muḥarram 842 [June-July 1438] by ʻĀbid ibn Amīn ʻĀrif Aqsarāʼī al-Ḥanafī (colophon, fol. 200b). Obliterated inscription, probably waqf statement, with obliterated seal (fol. 2a ; the same seal, obliterated, appears on fol. 200b). Note on fol. 201a, stating that this copy was bought from ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Khiḍr(?) in Baghdād. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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