Extent: 119 leaves: paper ; 245 x 170 (200 x 130) mm. bound to 245 x 180 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 2a). Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (professional hand) in black ink with use of red ; vocalized. Thick dark cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid ; frame-ruled. Chiefly quinions. Marginal annotations. Several inscriptions on fol.1a-2a, 119b, and on the pastedowns. Reading statements on the margin (see fol. 27a). Title on tail of text block. Inner margin... Collation: Paper, fol. 119 ; 1-1110 (first quire uncertain) 1210 (-1 at end of quire) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "Thānī kurrās" (see fol. 11a; cut off on some quires). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "30". Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Iṣfahānī in the last decade of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 676 [Sept. 1277] (fol. 119b). Waqf by al-Munlā ʻUthmān al-Kurdī (see inscription on fol. 2b-3a, upper margin). Ownership statement on fol. 2a in the name of Abū Bakr ibn ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī, dated 745(?) H. Reading and ownership statement in the name of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻImād al-Dīn on the margin of the colophon (fol. 119b). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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