Extent: v, 84, ii leaves: paper, ill. ; 210 x 152 (135 x 100) mm. bound to 214 x 155 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from preamble of text (fol. 3b, l. 10). Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red? (fading to dark grey). The text is partially vocalized; final yāʼ dotted. Contains a chart with direction of the qiblah for al-Shām (fol. 75b, in black ink). European paper with watermark; glossy. Quinions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. According to catchword, quire structure, and the... Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 11 al-Mawṣil". Origin: According to colophon, copied in Istanbul, 19 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 946 [Aug. 4, 1539] (fol. 84b). Collated by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Tādhifī, the author's father (note on the right margin of the colophon). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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