Extent: 163 leaves : paper ; 210 x 140 (115 x 75) mm. bound to 210 x 150 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from fol. 8a. Physical description: 9-10 lines per page. Written in a thick round naskh(?) in black ink, with use of red and green. Some headings in the text and subject headings on the margins are written on a green, red or yellow ground. Annotations on the margins, between the lines, and on slips of paper placed between the original leaves (some bearing impression of a seal, see between fol. 98 and 99... Two of the slips with annotations are re-used letters, now shelved separately. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Naḥw 41". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1108/2". Origin: Copy completed in 1139 H. [1726 or 7] (long colophon, fol. 161b). Apparently from the same group as the manuscripts from Imām Shamīl's entourage. Inscription "From the books of Nūḥ al-Qaladī" (fol. 11a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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