Extent: 147 leaves: paper ; 265 x 185 (160 x 105) mm. 265 x 190 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from fol. 1a. The same title appears in the preamble of the text (fol. 5a, l. 4). Physical description: 11 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red for headings. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1-3 and 147 are later additions (European paper with watermarks). Interlinear and marginal ḥāshiyah. Table of contents on fol. 1b-2a. Several inscriptions and short excerpts on fol. 4a. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with... Inscriptions in Arabic script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 1393" (on a label); "504" (in red pencil). Inscription in Arabic script black pencil on fol. 1a: "240 Kanz al-daqāʼiq". Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Ramaḍān 873 [March-April 1469] by Khalīl ibn Ṭūrīlī(?) (fol. 142b, with two lines of poetry; copyist's name added at the end) Ownership statement in the name of al-Ḥājj ʻAbd Allāh Anṣarī, and impression of two stamps on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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