Extent: 220 leaves: paper ; 265 x 175 (182 x 122) mm. bound to 265 x 185 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger, statement of responsibility from title apge (fol. 6a). Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red ; yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah. Dark cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid, with a few lines visible. First leaves and last leaf in European paper with watermark. Table of contents on fol. 2b-3b, with title in gold outlined in black. Table of contents on fol. 5b. Several inscriptions in Ottoman... Decoration: Illuminated title page executed in gold, blue and red on fol. 6a. Panel outlined in blue with flecks, with a roundel on the left upper margin. The panel is divided in two uneven parts: the upper cartouche, probably mentioning the title is cut off ; eight lobe mandorla encompassing the name of the author written in blue, and corner pieces for lower panel. Inscription on fol. 1a: "Numrah 56". Origin: Copy completed on Monday 20 Rabīʻ al-Ākhirah 854 [June 1450] (colophon, fol. 219a). Waqf statement on fol. 2a in the name of Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, with signature reading "al-Marʻashī"(?). Ownership statements on fol. 5a and 6a, one dated 868 H. [1463 or 4]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
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