Title from introduction to first volume (f. 2v). Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto, some misnumbering; catchwords every verso, lower left. Layout: Long lines in all volumes (v. 1: 23; v. 2: 28; v. 3: 23; v. 4: 20); border-ruled; frame-ruled; some marginalia. Script: Written in neat maghribi in brown ink; pointed, unvocalized. Decoration: Textblock border rules in double red and blue. Rubrications in red and blue or red and green (particularly in v. 3). Binding: All volumes bound in bright red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Covers have gold tooled frame, corner decoration and outline of central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. Central mandorla is embossed, yellow-brown paper onlay. Flap has coordinating onlay inside a gold tooled pendant. Doublures are plain paper cut with a decorative scalloped edge along one... Origin: All volumes were copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ Bannānī; some volumes have dates in the colophons: v. 1: 1276 A.H. (f. 221r); v. 2: 1268 A.H. (f. 162v); v. 4: 1274 A.H. (f. 269v). One leaf with manuscript notations has been laid into v. 3. Formerly owned by Dr. Marcus Jastrow and Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr. Accessioned, 1934.
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