Extent: 197 leaves: paper ; 247 x 150 (165 x 92) mm. bound to 245 x 155 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from colophon (fol. 196a). For other copies, see Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3586. Physical description: 23 lines per page. Thin light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1 and 197 are later added fly-leaves with inscriptions (European paper with watermark -- crowned lion with front left foot up). Occasional annotations on the margin by another hand. Inscriptions, including ownership statements, on fol. 1a and 2a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Naḥw 11(?)". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "570 Ḥ". Origin: According to colophon, copy (tanmīq) completed on 1 ("fī ghurrah") Muḥarram 874 [July 11, 1469] (fol. 196a). See also note on the margin. Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, in the name of Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm, of al-sayyid Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Mawlawī ... mawlawīkhānah ..., of al-sayyid Muḥammad ...? al-Mawlawī ... mawlawīkhānah-yi Arzinjān, of al-sayyid ʻUthmān al-Mawlawī ... mawlawīkhānah-yi Arzinjān, of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (dated 1276 H.), one dated 1019 H. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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