Extent: i, 57, i leaves: paper ; 183 x 131 (112 x 115) mm. bound to 183 x 135 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for re-inking of dots and letters. Irregular length of the lines. Thick ivory paper, glossy, hardly transparent, with pulp and laid lines visible. Fol. 56 and 57 are later additions (European paper). Occasional marginal annotations. Note on the copy by a modern hand on the pastedown of the upper... Two spine labels (vertical), reading respectively: "Sharḥ al-[--]ūmah Ibn al-ʻI[mād] fī ādāb al-akl", and "4", in Arabic and in Western numerals. Origin: Copy dated -53. Probably 15th or 16th century. Several ownership statements, some erased, and one erased seal, on fol. 1a and 56b, one in the name of ʻAbd Allāh al-GhMrī, dated 1169? H. ; one in the name of Yūsuf ---?, dated Damascus, 19 AB 1869. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).
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