Extent: i, 137, iv leaves: paper ; 182 x 135 (143 x 95) mm. bound to 185 x 148 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). 19 lines per page. Written in casual medium small naskh in black ink. The script becomes more casual from fol. 78a on. Thick light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. (i)a and 1 and fol. i-iv at the end of the text are on later European glazed paper with watermark. Marginal annotations. Several inscriptions and short excerpts on fol. 2a-3a. Inscription in Arabic script on a... Collation: Paper, fol. 137 ; ii (fly-leaves with inscriptions ; (ii) is fol. 1 in the modern foliation in Western numerals) + 1-178 (fol. 2-137) + iv (blank fly-leaves) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Three ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of Aḥmad Najīb [19th cent.] ; ... ibn Muṣṭafá Thāmin Bey ibn ʻUthmān Ṣaray Pāshā, dated 1287 H. [1870 or 71] ; ... al-Mashriqī? al-Mālikī. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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