Extent: 258 leaves : paper ; 215 x 156 (155 x 87) mm. bound to 215 x 165 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title on fol. 256a and on the lower edge of text block. 25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. Glazed European paper. Some marginal annotation. The extra paragraph at the end starts with a couple of lines in the scribe's hand, but is finished by a different hand. Ff. 5b-6a have a table of contents in black ink also in a later hand. Several ownership statements on fol. 2a and fol. 5a, the latter accompanied by seals (6 seals in total), in the names of, among others: Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd al-Qādir, a court scribe, Saʻd al-Dīn, and Mustafa Şevket. Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.
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