Extent: 148 leaves: paper ; 193 x 145 (122 x 75) mm. bound to 193 x 150 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from inscription on fol. 1a. Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper, translucid, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1 consists of a later leaf pasted on the recto of the first leaf of the text. Ḥāshiyah on the margin and on a few small slips of paper placed between the original leaves. Several inscriptions on the... Collation: Paper, fol. 148 ; 18 (-1 at beginning of quire) 2-188 19 (4 leaves + 1 at end of quire) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Naḥw 68". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 1389/2". Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 2 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 852 [June 1448] by Mūsá ibn Muḥammad (fol. 146a). From the books of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir, 1269 H. [1852 or 3] (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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