Extent: 182 leaves : paper ; 215 x 160 (165 x 120) mm. bound to 215 x 170 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from inscription on fol. 2a. Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in careful medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is partially vocalized. Red tear-drop text stops. Thick light cream paper, hardly translucid, with laid and chain lines visible. Some leaves darker. On these leaves, ink corrosive. Marginal annotations (collation notes and glosses). Fol. 1 is a later addition. Several... Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each quire; some quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "al-Khāmisah" on fol. 36a). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf 27". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 130". Two leaves of another manuscripts were placed in the volume. They are now shelved separately in Fragments, leaves, etc. (Yahuda Series). Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Dūghān Sibṭ al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Badrānī, Thursday 12 [re-written] Dhū al-Qaʻdah ("khalat min") 846 [March 14, 1443], from a copy copied from a copy collated on an autograph copy (fol. 180a, followed by a biographical note on the author and by the words: "Thānī nuskhah min al-Adhkār"). Autograph ijāzah from Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir (or: al-Qādirī?) al-Shāfiʻī for Muḥyī al-Dīn Zakaryā al-Anṣārī on fol. 180a. Reading statement dated Muḥarram 1154 on fol. 1a. Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, including one dated Aleppo, 22 M 1273, and one mentioning al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Karīm al-...?, al-Ḥājj Ṣāliḥ Efendi and al-Ḥājj [Muḥammad] Naʻān, with mention of price. Acquired from...
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