Ms. codex. Title from introduction (f. 3r). Foliation: Paper, ii + 182 + i; 1-2 (endleaves), 3-183, 184 (endleaf); modern script foliation in pencil, upper center recto; Coptic foliation, upper left recto (f. 6-37, 40-183). Folios 3, 5-182 have catchwords on versos, lower center or lower left corner. Layout: Written in 20-30 lines per page and occasional marginalia; folios 3-4, 38-39 frame-ruled in lead with double inner and outer vertical bounding lines. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Folios 1-3 and 36-37 are in a later hand which is not as clear as the first. Decoration: Rubrications in red. Some small decorations such as a cross adjacent the colophon and sets of four dots occasionally in the upper outer corner. Binding: One-half green leather over marbled boards; white paper spine label with typed shelf mark. Origin: Completed on Thursday the 15th of the month of Tubeh in the year 1501 of the holy martyrs (= 1784 CE) corresponding to the 28th of the month of Ṣafar 1198 hijrī (f. 183v). Copy has ms. shelf mark in pencil on back pastedown; ms. inscriptions in Arabic script on front pastedown, recto of front free endpaper, and recto and verso of back free endpaper; ms. inscription in Arabic at foot of f. 183v; a few ms. marginal annotations. Folio 37 torn off at bottom outer corner without loss of text; f. 41r damaged across central portion with some loss of text. Eight modern... Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (autograph, f. 183v and opposite title of each homily). Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate with ms. shelf mark, front pastedown; bookplate with ms. shelf mark, back pastedown).
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