Extent: iii, 227, i leaves : paper ; 172 x 125 (115 x 85) mm. bound to 175 x 135 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from inscription on fol. 1a. Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, "ṣ" and "sh" used to indicate the text and the commentary, and teardrop verse-stops. Thick cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid, with pulp and a few lines visible. Fol. 1-10 and fol. 17 are later replacements on European paper. Marginal annotations by several hands. Some quires... Two spine labels (vertical), reading respectively: "Sharḥ al-Alfīyah li-Ibn ʻAqīl" (in Arabic script), and "92" (in Arabic and western numerals). Origin: Copy completed on Monday 16 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 794(?) [March 12, 1392] by Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad al---- al-Shāfiʻī (colophon, fol. 227a). Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of ʻAbd al-Wahhān Ibn ʻAbd al----? Ibn al-Imām bi-al-Qalʻah ; of Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Mazārī al-ʻAjlūnī, dated 1238 H. [1822 or 23] ; one dated 1838 ; another dated 1888, in the name of Yūsuf ibn --ām. Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.
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