Extent: 332 leaves: paper ; 180 x 132 (128 x 75) mm. bound to 180 x 143 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from note on fol. 1a. 23 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. On the first page, the text is framed within a gilt and black border (fol. 2b). Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. A few marginal notes. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. On fol. 1a: Several inscriptions in Persian and Arabic ; ownership statements. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts on fol. 3a... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 41". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 318". Copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Yaʻqūb ibn Zakariyāʼ al-...mālajī on a Friday of Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 909 (colophon, fol. 328a). On fol. 1b: Reading certificate dated 1150 H. [1737 or 8] for Muḥammad al-Daghistānī al-..., ʻAlī al-Shirwānī, and Sulaymān al-..., signed Fayḍ Allāh ibn Rajab al-Anqarawī(?). On fol. 2a: Several ownership statements (one dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1088 [1678]; one signed Aḥmad Najīb, dated 1281 H. [1864 or 5]), with two seals. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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