Extent: 111 leaves : paper ; 215 x 155 (130 x 105 and 160 x 105) mm. bound to 215 x 165 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Physical description: 17 and 21 lines per page. Written in medium medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown) with use of red. The text is vocalized. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. Thick cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid, with a few chain lines in groups visible. Seven lines of poetry attributed to Burhān al-Dīn al-Jaʻbarī on fol. 4a. Quinions. The quires of the Kitāb Ḥirz al-amānī are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "Thānī" on fol. 12a). Collation and reading statements throughout, see one mentioning "Burhān a-Dīn" on fol. 11a. Origin: According to colophon, copy of Kitāb Ḥirz al-amānī completed in al-Khalīl, Monday 19 Shawwāl 727 [Sept. 7, 1327] (fol. 41a) ; copy of Kitāb al-Taysīr completed on 5 ("khams maḍīn") Dhū al-Ḥijjah 727 [Oct. 22, 1327] (fol. 111a). Impression of one almond-shaped seal on fol. 4a. Reading statement in the name of Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá, dated 1061 H. on fol. 111b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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