Titles from introduction (f. 2r) Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Layout: Written in 19 long lines; border-ruled. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in red with gold border-rule on first page-opening (f. 1v-2r); rubrications in red. Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped, centrally placed, lobed mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and matching pendant on the flap; yellow paper doublure and black leather flap hinge. Origin: The copy was completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1144 (September 1731) by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ramaḍān al-Ḥanafī (f. 193v). Two stamps one round, one square with trimmed corners (f. 1r, 2r, 194r); two notes, one effaced (f. 1r), one legible owner's note (f. 194r). Catalog entry in German pasted in (inside front cover). Formerly owned by Aḥmad al-Khammāsh (note in ink and stamp f. 194r; same stamp f. 2r). Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
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