Extent: ii, 165, i leaves: paper ; 256 x 170 (178 x 110) mm. bound to 256 x 180 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Larger script for headings (see fol. 3b). Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold and black on fol. 1b (damaged). The text is framed within two red fillets (with an outer black fillet on fol. 1b). Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. The text has been collated by another hand (undated collation statement on fol... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 31". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 565". Copied (zabr) on 10 Rajab 1018 (colophon, fol. 165b). Three ownership statements with two seals on fol. 1a (the last in the name of Aḥmad Najīb, dated 17 Dhū al-Ḥijjah [12]79 H. [1863]). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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