Extent: 185, i leaves: paper ; 185 x 124 (115 x 72) mm. bound to 187 x 130 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. The title and the name of the author of Text 1 appear on a note on fol. 1a and on the lower egde of the text block. The title and the name of the author of Text 3 appear in a note on fol. 146a. 19 lines per page. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 1a-2a, 145b-146a. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "al-Ḥikmah 18". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown... Texts 1 and 2 written by Muḥammad Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥusaynī(?) al-Jurjānī in 955 (colophon text 2, fol. 144b). Collation: Paper, fol. 185 + i ; 1-188 192 20-238 248 (-1, after fol. 185) + i ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Several ownership statements with seals on fol. 1a and 2a, mostly obliterated, one signed Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir, dated 7 Ṣafar [12]80 [1863] (fol. 1a) ; one obliterated with a circular seal (250 mm.); one signed Abū Bakr ibn Rustam ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Shirwānī? (fol. 2a). Circular seal (210 mm.) on fol. 146a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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