Extent: i, 152, i leaves: paper ; 240 x 160 (175 x 125) mm. bound to 247 x 170 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from fol. 1a. It appears in the preamble of the text as Bidāyat al-mubtadiʼ (fol. 1b). Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in casual medium large naskh in black ink, with larger script for headings. Thick light biscuit (some leaves peach) paper with thick laid lines and some chain lines visible. Fol. 1 is apparently a later addition. Marginal and interlinear annotations. Title on the tail of text block (hardly legible). Origin: Copy completed on 15 Shaʻbān 831(?) [May 1428] in Aleppo in the Madrasat al-... by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʻAlī ibn Hāshim al-Ḥanafī (colophon, fol. 152b). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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