Extent: 218 leaves: paper ; 275 x 185 (220 x 140) mm. bound to 275 x 200 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 2a). Physical description: 31 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red and occasional blue ; yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. Cream paper, soft, hardly translucid, with laid and chain lines, and pulp visible. Fol. 31-40 are later replacements. Fol. 1 and 218 are later additions (European paper with watermark -- crown surmounted by star and crescent). Several inscriptions on... Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 18 al-Mawṣil". Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad Ibn al-shaykh ʻAlī Ibn Sulaymān al-Turkmānī (Turkumānī)... al-Shāfiʻī, muʼaddib al-aṭfāl in ...?, and completed on Wednesday 11 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 807(?) [Sept. 27, 1404] (fol. 216a). Copyist: Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Turkmānī al-Shāfiʻī. Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, inclusing one in the name of al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Efendi ... (with seal), and one in the name of Majdī Efendi ibn Sulaymān Efendi ... zade (with seal). Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, including one with name erased, dated 885 H. ; one dated 962 H. ; one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥanafī, dated 977 H. ; one in the name of Maḥmūd ibn Tāj...
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