Extent: i, 263, i leaves: paper ; 280 x 158 (210 x 95) mm. bound to 280 x 160 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). 33 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold, black and red on fol. 1b. Gold and black frame on the two first pages of the text (fol. 1b-2a). Note on the number of ḥadīth contained in this book and on biographic details about its author added by another hand after the colophon (fol. 263a... Collation: Paper, fol. i, 263, i ; 1-2510 2612 (+1, fol. 263) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals (see "2" on fol. 11a); the middle of the quire is marked by a sign similar to a "8" in Arabic numerals on the upper left corner (see fol. 6a). Copy completed on 23 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1065 [March 2, 1655] by ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Jamāl al-Dīn, Imām at the Mosque of the wazīr Siyāwush Pāshā ("al-imām bi-Jāmiʻ Siyāwush Bāshā al-wazīr", in Sofia? see Encyclopaedia of Islam under "Ṣofya") (colophon, fol. 263a). Two ownership statement on fol. 1a, one signed ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad; the other signed al-Ḥājj Darwīsh ʻAbd al-Karīm Daftarīʹzādah (Defterizade), dated 8 Jumādā 1248 [1832]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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