Extent: 275 leaves: paper ; 209 x 142 (136 x 85) mm. bound to 209 x 145 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a; the same title appears in the colophon, fol. 272a). The second part of the title, mentioning the author's name, is hardly legible. Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red (gold and gold text-stops on fol. 1b). Illuminated title page (fol. 1a). Illuminated headpiece with the basmalah (fol. 1b). European paper with watermark; a few quires of darker paper with fibers visible on the surface; glossy. Fol. 273 is a later added endpaper with inscriptions (legal decision... Illuminated title page (ʻunwān, fol. 1a) with a panel divided in two parts: the upper part occupied the upper third of the panel and consists of a cartouche in gold, black, red, and blue, with the title; the lower part consists of a central roundel in gold, black, and blue, with the name of the author, on a ground left blank; the blue outline extents on the vertical and horizontal axis and... Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 10 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 973 [Nov. 4, 1565] (fol. 272a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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