Extent: i, 169 leaves: paper ; 270 x 180 (210 x 130) mm. bound to 270 x 190 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from rubric on fol. IIa. Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 1 and 167 are later added endpapers on European paper with watermark. Marginal annotations. Table of contents and keys to the abbreviations used in the text on fol. IIb-IIIa. Two lines of poetry in Ottoman Turkish attributed... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī 496". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on fol. (i)b: "Ḥāʼ 840". Origin: Copied in Muḥarram 841 [Jul.-Aug. 1437] by Ḥājjī Ibn ʻĪsá Bik ...? (colophon, fol. 161a). Several impressions of the waqf seal of the Kitābkhānah of al-Ḥājj Muḥammad, dated 1253 H. [1837 or 8]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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