Extent: 158 leaves: paper ; 253 x 173 (185 x 133) mm. bound to 255 x 180 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from table of contents (fol. 5b). 17 lines per page. Written in round clear medium small naskh in black ink with use of red, green and blue. The text is framed within two single red lines and an outer border consisting of one red line. Simple headpiece on fol. 7b, in red, green, and blue. European glazed paper with watermark. Table of contents on fol. 5b-6a. Fol. 1b-5a: Blank. Pagination in black ink using Arabic numerals... Collation: Paper, fol. 158 ; 14 (blank, fly-leaves) 22 (table of contents) 3-198 20-216 224 ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Copy completed by Ḥamūd ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Luṭf for Ḥusayn ibn [Blank] amīr al-liwāʼ al-sulṭānī in Yaman on 13 Rajab 1315? [Dec. 1897] (colophon, fol. 155a, reading "al-yawm al-thālith ʻashar min al-shahr al-sābiʻ min al-ʻāmm al-sādis ʻashar min al-miʼah al-rābiʻ ʻashar hijrīyah"). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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