Extent: i, 284, i leaves: paper ; 265 x 175 (180 x 125) mm. bound to 278 x 185 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines (in groups of two and three) visible. Occasional marginal annotation, mainly collation notes. Catchword on the last verso of each quire ; traces of quire numbering on some leaves (see fol. 250a, 260a). The pages have been trimmed so that part of... Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Muqrī al-Miṣrī al-Qādirī, known as Ibn al-Amshāṭī, from an autograph copy ("min aṣl yusawwiduhu al-muṣannif"), on 17 Ramaḍān 820 [Oct. 28, 1417] (fol. 285a-b, followed by verses of poetry). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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