Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "K.E. no. 80". Table of contents (fol. [ii]b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 198 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page
Description: Rubricated ; watermark (later endpaper only: bull's head) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يقول البعد الضعيف محمد بن محمود بن الحسين الاستروشنى ... الحمد لله الذي بهرت حجته وظهرت على الخلايق محجته ... وبعد فان الناس فى اموائهم مختلفوه وفى طبايعهم وارايهم ...
Ending: والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم
Binding note
Later type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather with orange leather spine. Multi-colored endbands.
Provenance
Signatures: ʻAlī Afandī, al-muftī fi-Ḥalab, Saʻd ibn ʻĪsá ibn ..., Muḥammad al-Amīn ibn Ṣanʻī, obscured signature and seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1704.
Hājji Khalīfah, I, p. 172.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 31, 124.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1340424460
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