Extent: 30 leaves : paper ; 185 x 135 (107 x 80) mm. bound to 190 x 145 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a, in red ink). Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small square naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and re-inking. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. Thick, cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid, with pulp and a few lines visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals, in the form "al-Thānī min al-Arbaʻīn" (fol. 9a) or "al-Rābiʻ" (fol... Reading statement by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-ʻAmrī, with the shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn --- on the margin of fol. 14a. See also inscription on the margin of fol. 30b. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "Raqm 344". Origin: Copied for himself (li-nafsih) by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Fuwwī(?) ---(?) al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī(?), who completed his work on Thursday 25 Shaʻbān 8-2 (Mach reads 852) [Oct. 24, 1448] in the Jāmiʻ al-Azhar (colophon, fol. 30b). Inscription mentioning Sayyid Muḥammad ʻUmar Ibn al-sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghanī Efendi, dated 1215 H. [1800 or 1801] on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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