Fols. 139; 26.7 x 17.8 cm.; written surface 19.2 x 13.3 cm.; 23 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with vowel signs; with catchwords; entries in red. A fragment of a commentary on the Koran. This fragment is the exegesis of Sūrahs XXX - XXXI:33. Beg.: بسم الله ... وهي ستون اىة وثمان مائة وتسع عشرة Ending: اذ ىظهر فىه الوجود کله على ما هو علىه وهو في اول الامر محجوب بمشکاة هي کالساتر A few marginal notes. Title, given by a later hand, wrongly designates work as a section of Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn of al-Ghazzālī, A.H. 505 [A.D. 1111]. MS in good condition; Arabic binding with flap. Probably from XVIth century. Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
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