Extent: 76 leaves: paper ; 200 x 144 (127 x 55) mm. bound to 200 x 160 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from note on fol. 1a. 16 lines per page. Written in thick shikastah nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark. Several ḥāshiyah (from the author, Maḥmūd Ḥasan, etc.) on the margins and on later pieces of paper pasted between the original folios. Inscriptions, including ownership statements on the pastedown of the upper cover and on fol. 1a. On fol. 1b-2a: Several short excerpts... Inscription in Arabic script on a modern label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 59". Inscription in Arabic script on a modern label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1274/2 Ḥāʼ". Copied by Muṣṭafá ibn al-Ḥājjī Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī in Qayṣarīyah (madrasah Malik [...?]) in 1087 H. (colophon, fol. 75b). Ownership statements (one dated 1286 H.) on the pastedown of the upper cover and on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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