Extent: 89, i leaves: paper ; 190 x 135 (111 x 80) mm. bound to 194 x 152 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from colophon (fol. 89a). 13 lines per page. Written in clear medium small naskh, in black ink with use of red. Thick dark cream paper with chain and laid lines visible. Some leaves seem to be later replacements of original folios (see fol. 8, 40-47, 73-74, 83-84, glazed European paper with watermark). Several short excerpts on fol. 89b. A bifolio with a commentary by another hand is placed between the upper cover and... Copied by Muḥammad ibn Mīkāʼīl in the middle decade of Jumādá al-Ākhir 765 [or 965?] (colophon, fol. 89a). Collation: Paper, fol. 89 ; 110 (-1, before fol. 1) 2-810 910 (+1, fol. 89) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "al-thānī". Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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