Extent: 244 leaves: paper ; 218 x 155 (155 x 110) mm. bound to 220 x 160 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from beginning of text (fol. 4a, l. 7-8). Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark (Tre Lune). Fol. 1 and 244 are fly-leaves on thicker paper with the recto and the verso respectively colored in yellow and gold-sprinkled. Spine label (horizontal) with title. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals. Collation: Paper, fol. 244 ; 110 (+1, fly-leaf added at beginning of quire) 2-2310 2412 (+1, fly-leaf added at end of quire) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover and on a spine label (vertical): "A 73a". Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 431" and "Raqm 713 m". Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday(?) 27 Shawwāl 1206 [June 18, 1792] by Muḥyī al-Dīn walad al-marḥūm al-sayyid Nūr al-Dīn [both names are re-written Waqf statement on fol. 1a, in the name of Āminah bint al-marḥūm ʻAbd al-Razzāq Āghā al-Ḥakīm, dated 27 Jumādá II 1246 [Dec. 13, 1830], with several signatures. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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