Extent: 205 leaves : paper ; 170 x 115 (125-135 x 70-75) mm bound to 168 x 118 mm.
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Ms. composite codex. Title from from lower edge of text block. Marginal notes and glosses. Inserts. Ten blank leaves after folio 158. Collation: Paper ; fol. viii + 205 + ii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Layout: 21-25 lines per page ; frame-rule in red. Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (crown with cartouche; grapes; horn; other unidentified) ; MS in good condition. Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece in gold (fol. 1b and 47b). Illumination across a double-page spread of Muḥammad's mausoleum with inner and outer frame of gold (fol. 5b-6a). A few opening spreads are frame-ruled in gold (fol. 1b-2a; 47b-48a; 88b-89a). Origin: [Treatise on reading the Qurʼan] Apparently copied by al-Ḥājj Muḥammad, Imām at Jāmiʻ al-Sulṭān Aḥmad Khan in al-Qusṭanṭīnīyah in 1112 (f. 44b) -- [Commentary on al-Durr al-yatīm] Copied 1 Rajab 1114 by al-Ḥājj Muḥammad, Imām at Jāmiʻ al-Sulṭān Aḥmad Khan (fol. 76b). Ownership signature: Muṣṭafá (fol. [xiii]b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
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