Extent: iv, 92, i leaves: paper ; 185 x 120 (80 x 60) mm. bound to 185 x 125 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 3a). Physical description: 10 lines per page. Written in black ink with occasional use of red. Thin light biscuit paper, translucid, with large laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. i-iv and 1 are later added fly-leaves (European paper with watermark). Ḥāshiyah on the margin, between the lines of the main text, and on small pieces of paper placed between the leaves. Several inscriptions, incuding short... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ṣarf 5". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 486". Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī at the end of Ramaḍān 782 [Dec. 1380] (fol. 92b). Copyist: Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī. Impression of a seal with inscription reading: "al-Sayyid Zāyid ʻAlī 265" on fol. 1a. Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, including one in the name of Mawlāná Ilyās Īrānī? (repeated on fol. 3a), of Muṣṭafá ibn al-ḥājj Bakr (with seal), of Aḥmad Najīb Ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (dated [12]81). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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