Extent: i, 226, i leaves: paper ; 263 x 178 (180 x 120) mm. bound to 270 x 185 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from inscription on fol. 1a. Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red and occasional green. Portions of the text are written diagonally or vertically. Cream paper, hardly translucid, with pulp, chain and laid lines visible. Note on the meaning of "Badīʻah" on fol. 1a. Excerpts from several texts on fol. 225a-226b. Collation: Paper, fol. i, 226, i ; i (later added fly-leaf) + 110 (-1 at beginning of quire) 2-810 912 10-2110 224 (+1 at beginning of quire) + i (later added fly-leaf) ; catchword at the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals for the first 9 quires, and ordinals from the tenth quire on. Inscription in Arabic script on fol. i(a): "Raqm 29". Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Tuesday 25 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 884 [June 16, 1479] (fol. 225b). Undated collation statement on the margin of the colophon. On fol. 1a: Ownership statement in the name of Muṣṭafá ibn al-Ḥājj [---] ... (dated 1 Rajab 1231 [May 28, 1816]); selling statement in the name of ... al-Dīn ibn al-marḥūm al-shaykh Shams al-Dīn, known as Ibn Sayf for mawlānā al-shaykh al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah ... al-shaykh Najm al-Dīn, dated end of [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1009 [June 1601], with mention of price and several signatures. Acquired from...
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