Extent: 101 leaves: paper ; 198 x 135 (125 x 80) mm. bound to 200 x 135 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from fol. 2a (later hand). The same title without "Kitāb" appears on the tail of the text block. Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red; yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. European paper with watermark. Fol. 2 consists of a later piece of paper pasted on the recto of an original leaf. Several inscriptions on fol. 2a, including collational notes and ownership statements. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first leaf). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Sh 70". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1443/2 Ḥ". Two ownership statements on fol. 2a, one in the name of Ḥusayn ʻĀrif ibn Khalīl ibn Muḥammad Khiḍr al-Jūramī(?); the other in the name of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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