Extent: 227 leaves : paper ; 210 x 157 (150 x 115) mm. bound to 210 x 157 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a). Incipit: سورة ال عمران مدنية قوله تعالى الم الله لا اله الّا هو قال الكلبى والوبيع بن آنس وغيرهما نزلت هذه الآيات Explicit: يومًا ترجعون فيه الى الله فعاش بعدها احد وعشرين يومًا والله سبحانه اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد النبى الامى وعلى آله وصحبه وسلّم Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in round medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for commented text. The text is framed within a gilt frame outlined in black with blue outline on fol. 1b-2a. Cream paper with laid and chain lines visible (a few leaves darker) ; frame-ruled. Chiefly quinions. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a. Inscriptions on the doublure of the upper cover. Decoration: Illuminated title-page (ʻunwān), apparently left unfinished. Cartouche in gold, white, black, blue, and red, with title written in white on a gold and blue ground. Roundel in gold outlined in black on the left margin. Six lobed roundel in gold outlined in black encompassing a space left blank underneath the cartouche. The cartouche and roundels are outlined in blue ink. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the doublure of the upper cover: "Raqm 346". Collation: Paper, fol. 227 ; 110 (-2, before fol. 1) 2-2210 2310 (-1, end of quire) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals. Origin: Collation statement dated last decade of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 854 [Dec. 1450] (margin of colophon, fol. 225b). Waqf? statement, partly erased, in the name of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar ibn Ismāʻīl ibn Aḥmad ibn al-shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn ... ibn ...? Ibrāhīm ibn Adham (fol. 1a). Three reading statements on fol. 226a: 1) Reading and collating statement dated 17 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 866? [Jan. 1462], written by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Zayd, mentioning also al-Shaykh... Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.
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