Extent: i, 240, i leaves : paper ; 285 x 205 (195 x 135) mm. bound to 290 x 210 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 5a). Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with pulp and fibers visible. Ḥāshiyah on fol. 5a and on the margins. Before the first original folio are four leaves of thick European paper with watermark, with a Table of contents on fol. 4a-b. Four leaves of the same paper after the colophon (fol. 230-233), and two at... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 580". Origin: Copy completed by Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan, on Saturday 14 Jumādá al-Ūlá 962 [April 6, 1555] (colophon, fol. 228b). Collation statement dated 19 Shaʻbān 962 [July 9, 1555] ; ḥāshiyah completed on 18 Shaʻbān 962 [July 8, 1555] ( (fol. 228b, margins of the colophon). Patronage: Copied for (bi-rasm) Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAmr ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mʻāfī (colophon, fol. 288b). Several ownership statements on fol. 5a, some dated (1093 H., 1111 H., 1190 H.). Ownership statement in the name of Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Amīr al-Muʼminīn on fol. 288b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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