Extent: 110 leaves : paper ; 180 x 135 (125 x 85) mm. bound to 185 x 140 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from note on fol. 1a. It also appears as "Sharḥ al-Miṣbāḥ Kitāb al-Iftitāḥ" on a label pasted on the upper cover (inverted). According to GAL, the author flourished in 800/1397. Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. Important marginalia. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including verses in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, and ownership statements. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "al-Naḥw 62". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1158/2 Ḥāʼ". Collation: Paper, fol. 110 ; i (later added fly-leaf ; European paper ; fol. 1 in modern foliation) 110 (-1, at the beginning of quire) 2-1010 1110 (-1 at end of quire) i (later added fly-leaf ; European paper). Origin: Copy (or composition?) completed in the middle of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 848 [July 1444]. Copied by Ibrāhīm ibn ... ibn ʻAlī (colophon, fol. 109a, with three lines of poetry in Arabic). Ownership statement in the name of Maḥmūd ... ḥaḍrat al-Shaykh Abū al-Wafā, with seal (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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