Extent: 54 leaves : paper ; 238 x 170 (195 x 130) mm. bound to 240 x 170 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). The title appears in the preamble of the text (fol. 1b, l. 20) and on the tail of the text block as "al-Sāmī fī al-asāmī". Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red for headings. Cream paper, glossy, with pulp and fivers visible. The pages have been trimmed so that parts of marginalia are cut off. Detailed table of contents in preamble (fol. 3a-b). Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including verses of poetry in Arabic and Persian in praise of the... Inscription in Arabic script in pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Lughah 57". Collation: Paper, fol. 54 ; 18 (-1, before fol. 1) 2-68 78 (-1 at the end of quire). Origin: Copy completed on Saturday 1 ("fī ghurrah") Muḥarram 708 [June 1308] by Ṣāliḥ ibn Yaʻqūb al-Anqarī in al-Madrasah al-ṣār...īyah (colophon, fol. 54a). Ownership statement in the name of Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣādiq al-ʻUmrī (or al-ʻAmrī) al-Ḥusaynī(?), dated Miṣr, 1008 H. [1599 or 1600] (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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