Extent: i, 10, i leaves: paper ; 190 x 135 (135 x 90) mm. bound to 190 x 140 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 3a). The same title and the name of the author appear in the preamble of the text (respectively fol. 3b-4a and fol. 3b, l. 13-14). Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red; yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah. European paper with watermark. Fol. 1-2 and 9-10 are later additions (thicker European paper). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1193/2 Ḥ". Inscription in pencil in Arabic script on the same pastedown: "Thālith 117". Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻUthmān Muṣṭafá, khādim al-fuqarāʾ al-Aḥmadīyah, on Thursday 14 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1183 [1770] (fol. 8a). From the books of Aḥmad Najīb Ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement dated 12 R[abīʻ] 1 [12]79 on fol. 1a). Impression of a seal on fol. 3a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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