Extent: 90 leaves : paper ; 177 x 130 (135 x 80) mm. bound to 177 x 145 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from preamble of text (fol. 3b, l. 13-14). The same title appears in the colophon (fol.90b). The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 2b). Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in black ink with some use of red. Frame in red and gold outlined in black on fol. 2b-3a. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and a few chain lines visble. Title on tail of text block (hardly legible). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "34"on fol. 3a). Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) crudely executed in red and gold on fol. 2b. Collation: Paper, fol. 90 ; i (later added fly-leaf with inscription; fol. 1 in the modern foliation) 1-810 910 (-1 at end of quire) i (later added fly-leaf) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Qirāʼāt 65". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 261". Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Maṣlaḥ al-Dīn, Mecca, Ramaḍān 919 [Dec. 1513] (fol. 90b). Five ownership statements on fol. 2a, in the name of Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad, muʼadhdhin in the Jāmiʻ al-marḥūm Rustam Pāshā ; of Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Ṣidqī ; of al-Ḥājj Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn (?), dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1156(?) with seal; of al-shaykh Muḥammad ibn al-shaykh Muṣṭafa̋, known as Faqīh zade al-Aydinī al-QūlBṢānī; of Aḥmad Najīb. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.Acquired...
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