Extent: 353 leaves: paper ; 275 x 183 (205 x 125) mm. bound to 275 x 190 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from end of text (fol. 353b). 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Inscription on fol. 1a. Marginal annotations. Short text on the pastedown of the lower cover. Ownership statement(?) in Ottoman Turkish dated 1256 H. [1840 or 41] on fol. 2a (almost completely erased). Threat page-markers. Inscription in Arabic script on a label... At the end of the copy, long colophon copied from the exemplar: copied by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaʻqūb ibn Ḥassān ibn Thābit al-Anṣārī who completed his work on Saturday 17 Shawwāl 836 (fol. 353b). This is followed by the colophon of this copy: completed in 846 H., the end being copied by Mawlāná Ṭāhir ibn al-marḥūm mawlāná Muḥammad bey, the beginning by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maṣlaḥī, qāḍī in... Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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