Extent: 113 leaves: paper ; 208 x 130 (160 x 90) mm. bound to 206 x 135 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title of first text, from a partially erased ownership statement on fol. 2a. Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Cream European paper with watermark. Fol. 1 and 112-113 are later additions. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a-2a, including ownership statements. Stained with dampness. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Naḥw thānī 88". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1117/2 Ḥ". Inscription in Arabic numerals in pencil on fol. 1a: "132". Origin: According to colophon, copy of Text 1 completed early Muḥarram 1002 [Oct. 1593] (fol. 102b). The other texts of the volume appear to be by the same hand. Several ownership statements on fol. 1a and 2a. Ownership statement in the name of Aḥmad ibn Khalīl al-Amānī, with two impressions of a seal with the inscription "ʻAbduhu Ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad 1243" on fol. 3a. Waqf statement in the name of ... Amīn Āghā for Aḥmad ibn Khalīl then for the madrasah [name erased] on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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