Extent: 314 leaves : paper ; 210 x 146 (144 x 75) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from fol. 1a. Copied by Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá, in Üsküdar, and completed on the 24th of Muḥarram 1071 (1660) -- colophon (fol. 313a). 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. On ff. 7b-9a text is within a frame outlined in gold ink. Fol. 7b has a simple head piece made with one scalloped line of gold ink, with radiating sprigs around the outer edges. Foliation in Arabic numerals in red ink and in Western numerals in pencil. Glazed European paper. Some marginal annotations... An extended signature, including his ancestry, by Mawlānā Ḥāfiẓ al-Dīn al-Naḥāwī on fol. 1a. A circular ownership seal in the name of ʻUmar al-Sayyid ʻAbduh on fol. 7a (three more ownership seals on same fol., illegible). Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.
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