Extent: 271 leaves: paper ; 213 x 150 (160 x 85) mm. bound to 215 x 155 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 16-17). The same title appears in the colophon (fol. 271a). 19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Thick European glazed paper with watermark. The text is framed within two lines in red ink (gold and black frame on fol. 1(bis)b-2a). Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 1(bis)b. Collation notes on the margins and on pieces of paper pasted between the original folios (see between fol. 13 an 14). Fol. 1b-1(bis)a... Copy completed on Yawm al-Sabt 24 Ṣafar 1201 [Dec. 16, 1786] by ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn Khaṭṭāb al-Ashbūlī(?) al-Shāfiʻī (colophon, fol. 271a). Collation: Paper, fol. 270 ; 1-2610 2710 (+1 at the end) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Ex libris "P. V. Carletti membre des S.S.A. de Paris et de Londres Professeur d'Arabe à l'Université de Bruxelles". Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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