Extent: i, 355 leaves : paper ; 215 x 155 (135 x 100) mm. bound to 215 x 170 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a). Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small square naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is partially vocalized. Frame in gold outlined in black on fol. 1b-2a. European paper with watermark, glossy. Fol. (i) is a later added fly-leaf (European paper with watermark). Marginal annotations (mainly collation notes). Title on tail of text-block. Kabīkaj and ownership... Decoration: Illuminated title page executed in gold, blue, and white (fol. 1a). Panel defined by fillets in black ink and divided in three uneven parts. The upper and lower cartouches bear the title; the central square, the authority statement. The inscriptions are in white on a ground consisting of floral intertwined motifs in blue and gold. Collation: Paper, fol. i, 355 ; i (later added fly-leaf; European paper) 110 (-1 at beginning of quire) 2-3110 3210 (+2, fol. 318-319) 33-3510 364 ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Abshahī balad[an] wa-al-Azharī muwaṭṭanan wa-al-Mālikī madhhaban, and completed on Tuesday 28 Ramaḍān 974 [April 8, 1567] (fol. 352b). On the right margin: Collation statement by ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn Manṣūr al-Musīrī(?) (the same name appears at the end of the colophon), who collated the text on copies "mukhtalifah fī al-alfāẓ... Four ownership statements and impression of two seals on fol. 1a, including one partly erased dated 9-4 H. and one in the name of ʻAlī ibn Amr Allāh ibn Muḥammad, dated 975 H. Ownership statement in the name of ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan al-Musīrī(?) on fol. 352b. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
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