Extent: 110 leaves : paper ; 273 x 185 (185 x 105) mm. bound to 275 x 195 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from preamble (fol. 3a, l. 5). The same title appears on fol. 1a, a later added fly-leaf. Physical description: 16 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of dark red (faded to brown on some pages). Dark cream paper, with laid and chain lines visible. Irregular dimensions. Fol. 1 is a later added fly-leaf (European paper with watermark). Important ḥāshiyah on the margins and between the lines of the main text. On the pastedown of upper cover is a label with an inscription in Roman script, reading : "A 243" (repeated on a spine label) ; and an inscription in pencil, reading: "no. 19". Origin: Copy completed at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 802 [Dec. 1399] by Aḥmad ibn Quṭlū ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥanafī al-Amadī (colophon, fol. 109a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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