Extent: 117 leaves: paper ; 225 x 150 (175 x 100) mm. bound to 225 x 155 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from rubric on fol. 2b. The same title appears in the colophon (fol. 116a). Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of magenta. Contains charts and figures. European paper. The text is not vocalized. Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals (centre of upper margin). Table of contents by the same hand as the main text on fol. 1b-2a. Title on tail of text block. Hardly legible inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "433/2 Ḥ". Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Thursday 2 Ṣafar 1262 [Jan. 1846] by al-Ḥājj ʻAlī al-Dāghistānī (fol. 116a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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