Extent: 56 leaves: paper ; 205 x 140 (156 x 84) mm. bound to 205 x 145 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from fol. 2a. Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for "qāla" and "aqūl" and to overline the commented text. The text is framed within a single line in red ink. European paper with watermark. Annotations on the margin. Fol. 1 and 55 are modern added fly-leaves. Several inscriptions on fol. 2a, including ownership... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ṣarf 33". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1357/2 Ḥ". Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Fāʾiq, who completed his work on a Friday at the end of Ṣafar 1011 [Aug. 1602] (fol. 52b). Waqf (see inscription on fol. 3a, upper margin, and on fol. 2a, the latter with mention of the name "ʻAbd al-...? Sharīf Aḥmad"). Several ownership statements and impressions of seals on fol. 2a, including one in the name of Sharīf Aḥmad Ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad Islāmbulī, and one in the name of ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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