Extent: iii, 260, i leaves: paper ; 260 x 175 (165 x 125) mm. bound to 268 x 180 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the colophon of Juzʼ 1 (fol. 134a). Physical description: 27 to 31 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʼ dotted. Thick dark cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Chart of the readings of the Qurʼān on fol. 1a. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (faulty). Stained with water. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "al-Qirāʼāt 2". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 990". Origin: According to colophons of Juzʼ 1 and 2, copied by Aḥmad ibn Ismāʻīl ibn al-ʻImād al-Dimashqī ... al-Shāfiʻī ... al-Ashʻarī ... Juzʼ 1 was completed on 15 Ṣafar 930 [Dec. 24, 1523] (fol. 134a, followed by two lines of poetry) ; juzʼ 2 on 26(?) Rabīʻ al-Awwal 930 [Feb. 2, 1524] (fol. 258b). Three ownership statements, in the name of ʻAlī ibn ʻImād al-Dīn al-... (dated 940 H.), of Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn ... al-Ḥanafī (dated 971 H.) and of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (dated 1288 H.), and impression of two seals on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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