Extent: 78 leaves: paper ; 175 x 135 (130 x 110) mm. bound to 175 x 140 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from colophon. The title appears in the preamble of the text as "Tasʹhīl al-fawāʾid wa-takmīl al-maqāṣid" (fol. 2b, later hand). Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with abundant use of red ; text vocalized; yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah. Thick dark cream paper, hardly translucid. Fol. 2 is a later replacement. Inscriptions on fol. 77b-78b, including pen-trials and a note mentioning a death date. Quinions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using... Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Thursday 10 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 850 [Jan. 1447] (fol. 77a, followed by a cyphered line). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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