Extent: 149 leaves : paper ; 180 x 130 (125 x 65) mm. bound to 180 x 140 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from inscription on fol. (1bis)a. Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red to overline the commented text. Soft light cream paper, hardly translucid, with a few lines visible. Marginal annotations by the same hand as the main text, some attributed to the author or to Ibn Ḥājib. Inscriptions mentioning price and magic script on fol. (1bis)a. Modern foliation in pencil using... Chiefly quinions. The last word of each verso is repeated on the next recto. Inscription in Roman script in red pencil on the upper cover: "130 Y" (repeated on a spine label and on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover). Origin: According to colophon, copied by al-Ḥājjī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājjī Sulaymān [Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān], Thursday 21 Ramaḍān 891 [Sept. 20, 1486] (fol. 148a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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