Extent: 259 leaves : paper ; 182 x 129 (125 x 80) mm bound to 182 x 132 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). Marginal notes and glosses in black and red. The elegy on folios 26 and 27, composed on the death of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Abū al-Fatḥ Ghāzī, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīnʼs (Saladin) son, appears in Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, pp. 135-7. MS begins with statement that the poetical works of the author were collected and arranged by his friend and admirer Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Qaylawī, because the author... Collation: Paper ; fol. 259 ; catchwords ; partially foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Layout: 17 lines per page with separation between hemistitches ; frame-ruled in red. Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (coat-of-arms with roman-alphabet countermark "BB" with clover in between) ; MS in fair condition, some damage affecting legibility. Decoration: Title page all in red ink with circle and frame line drawing. Illuminated headpiece of red, blue, white, pink, green, blue and gold in a floral design on fol. 1b. Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday illegible 1099 by ʻAlī ibn Tāj al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī (fol. 258b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
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