Extent: 66 leaves : paper ; 225 x 169 (155 x 80) mm. bound to 235 x 175 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark. Some leaves are colored in green, others in red. Several ḥāshīyah written by the same copyist as the main text between the lines, on the margins and on small pieces of paper pasted between the leaves. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscriptions and several short... Inscription in Arabic script on a modern label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid". Inscription in Arabic script on a modern label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "282/2 Ḥ". Origin: According to colophon, copied by ...? Muḥammad al-Charpānī for al-Nishānjī [officer whose duty is to inscribe the Sultan's imperial cypher over all imperial letters-patent] Muḥammad Bāshā [Nishanji Mehmet Paşa], 15 Rajab 1212 [Jan. 3, 1798], in maḥrusah-i Istānah-i al-muḥammayah, in the Madrasat al-ʻAwqānī (fol. 64b). Several ownership statements and impression of a seal on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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