Extent: i, 232, i leaves: paper ; 185 x 135 (135 x 100) mm. bound to 185 x 150 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 6a; end of line wanting). Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh (professional hand), in black ink with use of red for headings, key-words, and text-stops. Light cream paper, glossy, with pulp visible ; some leaves darker. Fol. 1-4 and 226-228 are later additions on European paper with watermark (Tre Lune), with a table of contents on fol. 1b-3a, and on fol. 226a-228b. Title on tail of... Collation: Paper, fol. i, 232, i ; i (modern fly-leaf) 14 (later added quire; European paper) 210 (-1, beginning of quire) 3-2310 246 252 (+1, later added quire; European paper) i (modern fly-leaf) ; catchword on the verso of most leaves. Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "81 al-Mawṣil". Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 18 Muḥarram 871 [Aug. 30, 1466] by Qāsim ibn Muḥammad al-Shāfiʻī, muʾadhdhin in the Jāmiʻ al-Umawī [Damascus] (fol. 225b). Collation statement on the margin of the colophon: collation completed on 9 (or 7) Ramaḍān, with the father of the collationer, Ibrāhīm. Erased ownership statement on fol. 6a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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