Extent: 152 leaves : paper ; 214 x 128 (132 x 74) mm. bound to 214 x 140 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from colophon (fol. 150a). Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Ḥāshiyah and annotations by several hands on the margin. Title on tail of text block. Several inscriptions, including a description of contents in Ottoman Turkish, on the pastedown of the upper cover. Foliation using Arabic numerals in black ink. Collation: Paper, fol. 152 ; 1-198, ii (later added fly-leaves (European paper; fol. 151-152 in the modern foliation) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals by the same hand as the foliation. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ṣarf 7". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "807 Ḥ". Origin: According to colophon, copied by Saʻd ibn Iskandar al-Ṭabarī in Sabzawār, who completed his work (tanmīq) on a Monday in the middle of Muḥarram 849 [April 1445] (fol. 150a). Copyist: Saʻd ibn Iskandar al-Ṭabarī. Reading statement in the name of Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ...?, dated end of Rajab 881 [1476] (margin of colophon, fol. 150a). From the books of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement dated 21 R[ajab] [12]79 on fol. 1a). Two impressions of a seal on fol. 1a (repeated on fol. 2a-5a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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