Extent: vi, 196 leaves: paper ; 259 x 147 (163 x 80) mm. bound to 260 x 157 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from rubric on fol. (i)a. 22 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. A few leaves on European paper with watermark (see fol. 190-191). Several ḥāshiyah by the same hand as the main text on the margins. Some leaves are damaged (see fol. 29; fol. 50-57 water damaged with text illegible). Title and note on the author on fol. 1a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Tawḥīd 39". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1281". Copied on a Friday of Rabīʻ al-Awwal, no date (colophon, fol. 195a). Ownership statements on fol. (i)a, (ii)a and 1a, in the name of Aḥmad Najīb, dated 1289 H. [1872 or 3], Qāsim ibn Sulaymān, and Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Anṭālī. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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