Extent: ii + 360 + i leaves : paper ; 245 x 170 (180 x 115) mm. bound to 245 x 180 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from tail of text block. 21 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red, magenta and gold. Illuminated headpieces on fol. 1b (damaged), with inscription in white "Kufic" reading: "al-Mujallad al-rābiʻ", and on fol. 266b, reading: "al-Mujallad al-khāmis". The text is framed within a gold, black and blue border. Thin light cream glazed paper. The headpiece reminds of that in the ms. described by David James. After Timur (1992), no. 8, p. 40-41. Last folios worm-eaten and crudly repaired, with loss of text. Fragile. Copy completed on Saturday 4 Rajab 882 [Oct. 1477] (colophon, fol. 360b, followed by two verses of poetry in Arabic). See also colophon of al-Kitāb al-Rābiʻ on fol. 265b.
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