Extent: 185 leaves: paper ; 182 x 132 (128 x 82) mm. bound to 182 x 140 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from fol. 1a (later hand). 19 lines per page. Written in thick nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Some leaves are colored in red, in blue and in green. Fol. 121 falls in pieces. Fol. 1a is a later fly-leaf on European glazed paper with inscriptions. The last fly-leaf is pasted on fol. 185. Marginal annotations, mostly written by the same hand as the main text... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 106". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1099". Copied by Mūsá ibn ṬṚMSh on 1 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 864 (colophon, fol. 185a). From the books of Aḥmad Najīb [19th cent.] (see ownership statement on fol. 1a). Ownership statement in the name of Ḥāfiẓ Muṣṭafá ʻAfatī on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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