Extent: i, 99, i leaves : paper, ill. ; 210 x 150 (135 x 58) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm.
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Ms. codex. 15 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark. Contains diagrams. Some spaces meant for an illustration are left blank (see fol. 89b). Interlinear and marginal glosses written by the same hand. The last words of the verso are repeated at the beginning of the opposite recto. On fol. 1a: Several inscriptions; verses of poetry in... Two labels pasted on the upper cover, one with the inscription "215" in Arabic numerals, the other with the inscription "Riyāḍiyāt 51" in Arabic script. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1107/2 Ḥāʼ". According to a note on fol. 1a, the copyist Muḥammad ibn Ḥājjī [...?] started his work on 1 Muḥarram 1056 in al-Madīnah al-munawwarah. The copy was completed on 3(?) Jumādá II of the same year (colophon, fol. 99a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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