Extent: 257 leaves: paper ; 192 x 114 (129 x 53) mm. bound to 192 x 125 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from note on fol. 2a. 25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a grey-blue line (with gold and black lines on fol. 2b-3a). Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Fol. 247-256 are later replacements on glazed European paper with watermark. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in blue, red, gold, green, black, with a basmallah in white on fol. 2b. Ḥāshīyah on... Completed by Darwīs[h] ʻAlī, known as Zaynīʹzādah (colophon, fol. 255b, probably refering to the last folios only). Ownership statement signed Fuḍayl ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Jamālī [see al-Ghazzī. al-Kawākib al-sāʼirah (ed. 1949), vol. 2, p. 239, under Faḍlī ibn ʻAlī al-Rūmī], dated Shawwāl 944 [1538]. Ownership statement signed ʻAṭā Allāh on fol. 1a (later fly-leaf). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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