Fols. 193; 18.7 x 14 cm.; written surface 11-11.5 x 8-8.5 cm.; 13 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Fārisi; with catchwords; entries in red. A fragment of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm, the famous treatise on rhetoric. Beg.: القسم الثالث من الکتاب في علمي المعاني والبىان وفىه مقدمة لبىان حدّي العلمىن Colophon: والله الموفق للصواب بمنه وکرمه وخفي لطفه وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسلىما دائما. تمت Marginal notes. MS incomplete at the beginning; in different hands. In fair condition; Arabic binding with flap. Probably from the XVIIth century. Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925. ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, pp. 15/6; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7184. Printed in Cairo, A.H. 1317, 1318.
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