On title page (fol. 2a) the work wrongly attributed to Ibn Kemal. Short inscriptions on fol. 1a-2a. Fol. 154b-156a have a short text entitled "Mukhtaṣar fī al-ḥudūd", also providing definitions, copied by the same scribe, Dāwūd ibn ʻAbd Allāh, and dated the last 10 days of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 971 (1563).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 159 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled in a single line of red ink.
Description: Written in small informal taʻlīq in black ink ; rubricated ; watermarks ; substantial water damage through the entire ms, with a lot of ink duplication and some loss of text.
Origin: Copied by Dāwūd ibn ʻAbd Allāh and completed in the middle of Ṣafar 967 (1559) -- colophon (fol. 153a).
Incipit: الحمد لله حق حمده والصلوة على خير خلقه محمد وآله اجمعين وبعد فهذه تعريفات جمعتها واصطلاحات اخذتها من كتب القوم ورتبتها على حروف الهجآء من الالف والبآء الي اليآء
Explicit: اليونسية وهو يونس بن عبد الرحمن قال الله تعالى على العرش تحمله الملائكة تم
Binding note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over pasteboard. Evidence of envelope flap which is now missing and only the fore edge flap remains. Blind-stamped mandorla in the centre of upper and lower covers. Binding damaged and repaired in different leather on spine, and around edges of covers.
Language note
Arabic;
Script
Taʻlīq.
Provenance
Seal impression (fol. 155b). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1578.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II (280), SII (305).
Other format(s)
Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
173974048
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