Extent: 98 leaves: paper ; 178 x 127 (125 x 93) mm. bound to 178 x 135 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 4a). The same title appears in the colophon (fol. 97a). Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink; larger script for headings. The text is partly vocalized ; yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʾ dotted. Cream paper, soft, with pulp visible. Fol. 1 and 98 are later additions (European paper). Collation: Paper, fol. 98 ; i (later added fly-leaf, with inscriptions) 112 2-910 104 i (later added fly-leaves, with inscriptions). Inscription in Arabic script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 2 ʻ". Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Yafnī(?), and completed in [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 772 [1371] (fol. 97a). Ownership statement in the name of Ibrāhīm Ibn ʻAlī on fol. 97a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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