Extent: 288 leaves : paper ; 250 x 160 (195 x 125) mm. bound to 250 x 170 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). Table of contents, apparently contemporary with the copy, on fol. 287b-288a. Two verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 288b. Audition statement (samāʻ note) on fol. 287a-b, for several people who heard the text from ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Suhrawardī, in 5. Collation: Paper ; fol. 288 ; catchwords ; quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals and mentioning the number of the part, in the form "sādisah thānī" (see fol. 48a) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Layout: 23 lines per page. Description: Fol. 59-66 are apparently later replacements ; rubricated. Paper: Thin light cream paper with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 27 Shawwāl 595 Aug. 22, 1199 by Bayān ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Bayān ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 287a). Several ownership statements and one seal impression on fol. 1a, including one in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥusaynī, one in the name of Ismāʻīl Ibn al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ibn Tājah. Reading statement in the name of Muḥammad ibn ... ibn ʻAbbās ibn Ḥabīb on fol. 288b. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leiden, 1900.
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