Extent: 78 leaves : paper, ill. ; 175 x 108 (115 x 53) mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. 17 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and to overline the commented text (gold on the first four pages). The text is framed within two red fillets and an outer border of one single red fillet (gold and black frame with red outer border on fol. 1b-3a). A few marginal notes by the same hand. Contains diagrams, some more recent added on leaves... Two labels pasted on the upper cover with inscription in Arabic, respectively "Riyāḍiyāt 49" and "662". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "515 Alif" (or "1505"). Copied by Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Ḥājj ʻAlī (colophon, fol. 77b). Ownership statement in the name of al-Sayyid Muḥammad Fāʼiq on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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