Extent: 131 leaves: paper ; 210 x 155 (125 x 70) mm. bound to 210 x 160 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from inscription on fol. 2b. Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark ; glossy. Ḥāshiyah on the margins. A few slips of paper with annotations placed between the leaves. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a and 2a, including ownership statements. Kabīkaj on fol. 2b. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Stained with water. Traces of glue on... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Naḥw thānī 96". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "1066/2 Ḥ". Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on a Friday in Muḥarram 1030 [Nov.-Dec. 1620] by Muḥammad ibn al-ḥājj Ibrāhīm (fol. 129a, followed by verses of poetry in Persian). Ownership statement in the name of al-Sayyid ʻUmar al-Fakrī ibn Muḥammad Amīn al-Slāmbulī and impressions of a stamp on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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