Extent: i + 132, ii leaves: paper ; 270 x 185 (200 x 140) mm. bound to 275 x 190 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). Physical description: 26 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Marginal annotations (almost exclusively collation notes). Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. Short fāʻidah on fol. 131b. Inscription in Western numerals in pencil on fol. (i)a: "552". Collation: Paper, fol. i + 131, ii ; i (later added fly-leaf; European paper) + 110 (-1 at beginning of quire) 2-1210 1310 (+2 at end of quire, fol. 130-131) + ii (later added fly-leaves; European paper) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "sādis ʻashar" on fol. 20a) ; catchwords on the recto of first five leaves and last leaf of each quire. Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Mubārak ibn Aḥmad, known as Ibn al-Rūmīyah, and completed on 9 Muḥarram 782 [April 15, 1380] (fol. 131a). Collation statement in the name of ʻAlī ibn ...?, dated 7 Muḥarram 8(?) on the margin of fol. 131a. On fol. 1a: Erased ownership statement ; two waqf seals (hardly legible, 250 and 470 mm.), one apparently for the Madrasah al-Fatḥiyah(?). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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