Extent: 200 leaves: paper ; 187 x 137 (112 x 80) mm. bound to 188 x 150 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from note on fol. 1a. 17 lines per page. Written in small casual naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with pulp visible. Some leaves on European glazed paper with watermark. Verses of poetry attributed to ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī [al-Jīlānī] and several ownership statements on fol. 1a. Title on the lower edge of the text block (illegible). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 115". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 776". Copied by [...?] ibn Aḥmad in Dār al-Naṣr al-ʼRNah(Edirne?) in Muḥarram 850 (colophon, fol. 199a). Several ownership statements in the name of DRWS (Darwīsh?) Muṣṭafá DKābī(?), Ḥasan DKābī(?), and Aḥmad Najīb [19th cent.] with two seals on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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