Extent: iii, 256, ii leaves: paper ; 205 x 155 (157 x 80) mm. bound to 208 x 160 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title provided by cataloger. 20 to 21 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark. Fol. 19 dyed in yellow. The paper has been frame-ruled. The text is framed within a gold and black border. In the texts in verses, verses are separated by gold borders (see fol. 87a). Illuminated headpices (ʻunwān) and divisions of the page with a floral motif in gold, pink... Some texts are copied by ʻAbd al-Qādir, one of the disciples (tilmīdh) of Abū Bakr al-Marāshid in 1179 H. [1765 or 6] (fol. 161a). Others by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Khalīfah (Mehmet Halife) , known as Qurrah faqīh al-Lārandī [from Lārandah (Larende or Karaman), in Anatolia], in 1180 H. [1766 or 7] (fol. 208b). From the books of Aḥmad Najīb (note on fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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