Extent: 163 leaves : paper ; 266 x 188 (190 x 135) mm. bound to 266 x 195 mm.
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Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 163 + ii ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-15 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition. MS is rare. Layout: 21 lines per page. Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries in red. On the folios before the title page occur a table of contents (fol. 1b-5b), a statement about the author, another that this copy was written by the author himself (fol. 7a) and a summary of the contents (fol. 10a). Title page has several additions and some erasures. There is also a paragraph about the birth of Fāṭimah bint Muḥammad ibn... Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 11a). Ownership signatures include: Shaykhʹzādah (fol. 7a), Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Shawṭī, Mawlā Bā al-Saʻadī Ḥalabī, Sulaymān together with his seal impression, and Mīr Ḥasan al-Zuhdī ibn Khalīl Bāshā and his seal impression reading "fa-tabāraka Allāh aḥsan al-khāliqīn" (fol. 11a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
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