Extent: 58 leaves : paper ; 210 x 150 (155 x 75) mm. bound to 210 x 160 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from colophon (fol. 40a) Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Red circle marks at the beginning and end of each verse; in groups of three for hemistich. European laid paper. Fol. 41-56b: Blank. On upper cover: Ḥadīth and reading statement ("naẓara fīh"), the latter hardly legible. Magical inscriptions, table with inscriptions in Ottoman Turkish, mentioning "Raml Dānyāl... Chiefly quinions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "SH Ḥimṣ(?) 188" (repeated on the pastedown). Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "117Y". Origin: According to colophon, copied by al-Sayyid Ḥasan al-Ḥamawī, "28 khalat" Shawwāl 1131 [Sept. 1719] (fol. 40a). Ownership statement in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAlī ibn al-marḥūm al-Sayyid Asʻad ibn al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Jawwād al-Ḥawrā [ʻAlī ibn Asʻad ibn ʻAbd al-Jawwād] on fol. 1a (repeated on fol. 58b, with name reading: "al-Sayyid ʻAlī ibn al-marḥūm al-Sayyid Asʻad ibn al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Jawwād al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Ḥawrá (or: Ḥawrī)", dated Aleppo, Ramaḍān 1184 [1771]). Reading statement and shahādah in the...
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