Extent: 2 v. (i, 284, i + i,i, 265, i,i) leaves: paper ; 360 x 250 and 368 x 257 (255 x 185) mm. bound to 374 x 280 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from colophon of vol. 1 (fol. 284a). Physical description: Both volumes are similar, with 25 lines per page. Written in large naskh in black ink with use of red; the text is vocalized. Headings on margin in larger script; text-stops in red and black: black dot outlined in red at the end of each entry, "h" in red for sub-sections. Dark cream paper, glossy, with pulp visible. Fly-leaves in European paper with watermark in vol. 2... Origin: According to colophons, copy of Juzʾ 1 completed on 25 Ramaḍān 703 [May 1, 1304] by Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn al-Faḍl ibn Yaḥyá ibn al-Ḥasan [ib]n Ṣadaqah (fol. 284a) ; copy of Juzʾ 2 completed on Friday, 22 Rajab 709 [Dec. 26, 1309] by the same copyist, [---]ḍl ibn Yaḥyá ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣadaqah ibn ʻAlī ibn Ṣadaqah (fol. 265b, partly wanting). Waqf statement dated 15 Jumādá I 856 [June 3, 1452] for the Madrasah al-ʻUmarīyah (Madrasat Shaykh al-Islām Abī ʻUmar) in Damascus, mentioning a al-Bānyāsī (vol. 1, fol. 1a; vol. 2, fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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