Extent: i, 116, i leaves: paper ; 175 x 125 and 180 x 125 mm. bound to 190 x 130 mm.
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Ms. composite codex. Title supplied by cataloger. First part (fol. 2b-64b) written in elegant small taʻlīq, in black ink, with 19 lines to the page (writing surface: 110 x 65 mm.), on light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Second part (fol. 66a-116a) written in thick dense naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, in black ink with use of red, with 21 lines to the page (writing surface: 125 x 85 mm.), on light cream paper with laid... Copy of text 2 completed on the first Friday of Shaʻbān 873 by Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf (colophon, fol. 116a, concluded with verses of poetry in Persian). Purchase statement in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 2a, refering to Seyid Mustafa Efendi (al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Afandī), mentioning a coffeehouse in Kendili (Istanbul) and a price (40 paras), dated 7 or 17 Jumādá al-Ākhir -92 [892 or 992?]. Ownership statement signed al-faqīr Muḥammad and seal on fol. 67a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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