Extent: 214 leaves: paper ; 185 x 105 (123 x 55) mm. bound to 185 x 115 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh (professional hand) in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a border in gold and black. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold and colors on fol. 2b. The text on fol. 2b is written in gold clouds, with the margin filled with scrollwork bearing stylized floral motifs simply executed in gold. Biscuit paper, thin and... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Naḥw thālith 52". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 80". Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Monday 21 Muḥarram 858 [Jan. 21, 1454] (fol. 213a). Waqf (see fol. 1a, 2b, 212b). From the books of Muḥammad Asʻad (ownership statement fol. 2a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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