Extent: 60 leaves: paper ; 250 x 180 (170 x 110) mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from fol. 2a (later hand). Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1 is a later addition (European paper). Fol. 2 consists of the same paper pasted on the recto of an original leaf. The text has been collated. Ḥāshiyah on the margin. Note mentioning a price on fol. 1a. Wear ; stained with water ; a... Collation: Paper, fol. 60 ; i (later added leaf ; European paper) 1-510 610 (-1 at end of quire) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals, in the form "thāniyah" (see fol. 12a) ; marks indicate the bifolio at the centre of each quire ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmrān in Muḥarram 730 [Oct.-Nov. 1329] (fol. 60b, followed by verses of poetry). Two ownership statements (one in the name of Muḥammad, qāḍī in Qusṭanṭinīyah) and one large waqf-seal in the name of al-Mawlá Muḥammad ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn, known as ... Çelebi zade, dated 1038 H. on fol. 1a. Impression of the same waqf-seal throughout. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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