Extent: 187 leaves: paper ; 250 x 170 (180 x 120) mm. bound to 260 x 180 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). Collation: Paper, fol. 187 ; 110 (-1, before fol. 1) 2-1810 1910 (-2, after fol. 187) ; some quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "tāsiʻ" on fol. 80a ; the next quire is numbered "ḥādī ʻashar"!) ; the central bifolio of each quire is marked by signs in the upper right corner of the verso and the lower left corner of the next recto (see fol. 154b-155a). Chiefly quinions. Layout: 21 lines per page. Description: Written in medium large script in black ink (faded to brown). Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and pulp visible. Origin: Copy completed in Salamīyah on 22 Shawwāl 655 by ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Saʻd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī(?), who copied the text for himself (li-nafsih) (colophon, fol. 187b). Several reading and ownership statements on fol. 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
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