Extent: 175 leaves : paper ; 300 x 200 (203 x 115) mm bound to 300 x 204 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from introduction (f. 1v). Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Layout: 11 long lines; border-ruled and frame ruled with misṭarah. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Decoration: Rubrications in red; headers sometimes set off by rules. Border-rules in double red. Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap, now detached (Type II). Blind stamped and gilded central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis with mostly effaced gold-tooled frame. Flap has coordinating stamp and tooling. Pastedowns on boards silver stamped with repeating floral motif; other, faded, flower motifs are also visible under the silver stamps. Marbled paper... Origin: Copy completed on the 5th of Dhū al-Qaʻdah in the year A.H. 1015 (March 4, 1607) (f. 174v). Watermarks: Two watermarks. In upper corner, initials A B over a small trefoil. Centrally placed, a circle pointed on one end with an anchor in the middle. Acquired for the libraries from Luzac and Co. (London, England), 1910.
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