Extent: i, 381, i leaves: paper ; 205 x 150 (150 x 105) mm. bound to 208 x 160 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from table of contents on fol. 9a. 23 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red in small nastaʻlīq on fol. 12b-72b, and in clear small naskh on fol. 73a-380a. Marginal notes and collation notes. On fol. 9a: Table of contents dated 28 Rajab 1256 [1840]. On fol. 11a: Title and seal. Note on the author on fol. 12a. The quires of the older part of the ms. are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "al-Rābiʻ" (see... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "...? 102". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1635". The oldest part of the ms. was copied on 10 Ramaḍān 869 (colophon, fol. 377a). Waqf statement signed al-Ḥājj Muṣtafá Khayrī Mīrālāyī (with seal), and dated 22 Ramaḍān 1279 [1863] on fol. 12a. Several undated ownership statements in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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