Extent: 137 leaves : paper ; 280 x 190 (170 x 125) mm bound to 285 x 190 mm
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger, according to Mach, R. Yahuda. The name of the author appears in the preamble of the text (fol. 1b). Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for the commented text ; partly vocalized ; yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. Soft dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and a few chain lines (in groups of 2 or 3) visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margin. Fol. 1 consists of a later leaf pasted on the recto of an original leaf. Table of contents on fol. 1a... Collation: Paper, fol. 137 ; 1-1310 144 (-1 at end of quire) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "SH 407" (repeated on fol. 1a). Inscription in Roman script in red pencil on fol. 1a: "85 Aut." Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Bāʻūnī for himself, and completed in Jumādá al-Ukhrá 854 [July 1450] (fol. 134b, after mention of the date of his exemplar?, 10 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 799, see explicit note) On fol. 1a: Ownership statement in the name of al-Shaykh Ramaḍān ; waqf statement for the Madrasah al-Murādīyah(?) in the name of al-Sayyid Ismāʻīl Efendi. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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