Extent: 302 leaves : paper ; 240 x 128 (145 x 62) mm. bound to 240 x 128 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title provided by cataloger. The name of the author appears in the preamble of the text (fol. 2b). Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red and blue. Very thin paper, friable, with regular laid lines and fibers visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margin. A few leaves mended ; water damage with loss of marginalia. Collation: Paper, fol. 302 ; i (later added fly-leaf with inscriptions; fol. 1 in the modern foliation) 1-358 368 (+1 at end of quire) 374 ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ibn Ḥājjī Hibat Allāh Muḥammad ʻAlī, and completed on 9 Shaʻbān 1121 [Oct. 14, 1709] (fol. 302a, mentioning his son, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Qāsim) Several ownership statements with impressions of seals on fol. 302a-b.
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