Extent: i, 419, i leaves: paper ; 277 x 170 (223 x 112) mm. bound to 278 x 175 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. (iv)a). Physical description: 35 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for overlining. The commented text is written in red ink, with large gold dots text stops. The text is framed within a border consisting of a large gold line outlined in black. Verses of poetry are separated from the main text by a thin frame of gold outlined in black. Illuminated headipece... Description in English pasted on the verso of the first fly-leaf. Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "L 178". Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "A 136" (repeated on a spine label). Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 17 (?, "nahār al-Ithnayn li-sabʻ ʻasharah laylah khalat") Shawwāl 1170 [July 1757] by Khalīl, known as Ibn Qarā Muṣṭafá (fol. 413a). Several ownership statements on fol. (ii)a and (iv)a, all erased or obliterated. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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