Extent: 233 leaves : paper ; 208 x 151 (167 x 100-105) mm. bound to 209 x 155 mm.
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Ms. composite codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Marginal notes and glosses. Title on lower edge of text block: Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt[?]. 6. fol. 70a-224a: Kitāb al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻ ʻan aʼimmat al-amṣār al-sabʻah / taʼlīf Abī ʻAmr ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd ibn ʻUthmān ibn al-Muqrī al-Dānī. A work on the various readings of the seven early Qurʼan readers. 7. fol. 225b-232a: [Treatise on Qurʼanic recitation] An anonymous treatise on the chanting of the Koran. Collation: Paper ; fol. 233 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Layout: 9-21 lines per page. Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (fol. 1-4: coat of arms topped by a crown with roman-alphabet letters "GM"; fol. 4-12: coat of arms with sextant; fol. 16-69: three crescents; fol. 70-224: [unidentified circular mark], cross on three hills with roman-alphabet letters "AC") ; MS in fair condition. Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1128 (fol. 232a). Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf, Ḥasan ... ibn ʻAbd Allāh (fol. 16a); Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Hindūstānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf (fol. 70a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
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