Extent: 120 leaves: paper ; 225 x 168 (166 x 83) mm. bound to 227 x 185 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a; partly wanting). Physical description: 29 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red and green. Subject headings in red or green on the margins. Dark cream European paper with watermark. Some quires (mainly quinions) are numbered using Arabic numerals in the form "K 6" (see fol. 50a). Prayer for Abū Bakr, ʻUmar, ʻUthmān, ʻAlī, etc. on the upper margin of fol. 1b (later hand... Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "AUT 22" (repeated in red pencil). Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in the middle of Rajab 1178 [Jan. 1765] by al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ibn al-shaykh ʻAbd Allāh al-Khawwāṭ (fol. 120a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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