Extent: ii, 118, i leaves : paper ; 205 x 165 (132 x 110) mm. bound to 205 x 170 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 2a, written in black ink on a green and red ground). Physical description: 15 to 17 lines per page. Written in thick round naskh(?) in black ink with use of red, green and yellow. Subject headings written on the margins, in black and red, sometimes on a green, red, or blue ground. Important anotation on the margins and on slips of paper pasted or placed between the original leaves. On fol. 1a-2a are several inscriptions and short excerpts. A... Some of the slips with annotations are re-used letters, most of them pasted, see before fol. 1, between fol. 2 and 3, fol. 4 and 5, fol. 14 and 15, fol. 21 and 22, fol. 24 and 25, fol. 40 and 41, fol. 42 and 43 (three letters), fol. 55 and 56 (with seal), fol. 67 and 68, fol. 77 and 78 (two letters), fol. 85 and 86 (two letters), fol. 87 and 88, fol. 88 and 89, fol. 93 and 94, fol. 96 and 97... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Naḥw awwal 52". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1018/2 ḥāʼ". Origin: Apparently copied in the same milieu as the other manuscripts from the entourage of Imām Shamīl. From the books of the entourage of Imām Shamīl. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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