Extent: 286 leaves : paper ; 215 x 165 (140 x 95) mm. bound to 240 x 170 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from colophon (fol. 280b). Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in thick medium small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark, glossy. Annotations on the margins and between the lines, and on slips of paper placed between the original leaves. Four slips with annotations are re-used letters (now shelved separately). See M. Kemper, Shikhsaidov, A., Tagirova, N. The Library of Imam Shamil, Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. LXIV (2002), p. 139 and n. 41. Inscriptions in Roman script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "M. 19" (in red ink) ; "I. L. 463" (in pencil). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on fol.1a: "1359/2 ḥāʼ". Origin: Copy completed in Ramaḍān 1206 [April-May 1792] by ---? (colophon, fol. 280b). Impression of a seal on fol. 201a, reading; "Qurbān --- ʻAbd al-Qādir". From the books of the entourage of Imām Shamīl. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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