Extent: 38 leaves : paper ; 208 x 140 (145 x 75) mm bound to 208 x 145 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). A few marginal notes and glosses. Title also appears on label on the upper cover. The work is referred to in Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 83 under the title Shihāb al-akhbār fī al-ḥikam wa-al-amthāl wa-al-ādāb min al-aḥādīth al-nabawīyah. Folio 1a has a note that there are 38 folios. Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 38 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Layout: 15 lines per page. Description: Overlining in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (anchor with countermark) ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten. Origin: Probably from XVIIth century. Ownership signatures: Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Banūfirī al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥanafī dated 1189 with his seal impression (fol. ia); Yūsuf Afandī Mustaqẓān[.?] dated 1124 with his seal impression (fol. 1a and 38b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
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