Extent: 169 leaves : paper ; 220 x 170 (170 x 130) mm. bound to 223 x 190 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a) 21 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and punctuation. Light cream paper with laid lines visible (chain lines visible on some leaves). Fol. 1-14 and 161 are mended with the text copied on the repair. Fol. 162-167 are on another paper. Quinions. On fol. 1a: title; inscriptions; ownership statement. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Copied in the second half of Ramaḍān 533 (colophon, fol. 168a). Collation: Paper, fol. 169 ; 1-1610 1710 (-1, reconstructed) ; the first quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (in the form "thānī", see fol. 10a). Ownership statement on fol. 1a. Several audition statements (samāʻ notes) on fol. 168a-169b, mainly from the Masjid al-jāmiʻ in Damascus. According to R. Mach, the first one is by the hand of Ibn ʻAsākir. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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