Extent: 177 leaves: paper ; 182 x 135 (120 x 95) mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the preamble of the text, with no "Kitāb" (fol. 2b). Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red; yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah; final yāʼ dotted; mark for undotted sīn. Diagram of the seven climates on fol. 21a. Cream paper, soft, with pulp visible. Fol. 177 is a later added fly-leaf (European paper). Fol. 13-16, 60, 69, 70-71, 74-75, 78-97 are later replacements (European paper with watermark... Two reading statements ("ṭālaʻa fīh") on fol. 175b, in the name of Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn Jamīl(?) and of Sayyid Ḥamd Ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn al-Tājir, the second dated Sunday 2 Rajab 993(?) [1585]. Origin: According to colophon, copied by Qāsim ibn al-Ṣalāḥ for himself, and completed on Tuesday 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 873 [May 23, 1469] (fol. 174a, followed by verses of poetry on fol. 174b). Ownership statement and what appears to be a waqf statement on fol. 1a (partly wanting). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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