Extent: 240 leaves: paper ; 290 x 170 (215 x 125) mm. bound to 290 x 190 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from inscription on fol. 7a. Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Soft biscuit paper, hardly translucid, with pulp visible. Fol. 1 and 240 are later additions (European paper). Marginal annotations. Table of contents on fol. 3b-5b. Biographical note on the author, excerpted from Ṭabaqāt al-ʻulamāʼ, and verses of poetry in praise of this book on fol. 1a... Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "188". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1039". Origin: According to colophon, completed in --- Ābād by ...? on 12 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 729 [Sept. 7, 1329] (fol. 247b). From the books of ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, known as Ibn Dazdār (ownership statement, fol. 3a). Impression of a seal on fol. 7a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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