Marginal notes. Title also on lower edge of text block. Label on upper cover: "41 KE". Table of contents (fol. (i)b-(iii)b). Notes on Qurʼanic exposition (fol. 459b-460a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 240 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with inner and outer frame. Opening spread frame-ruled in gold and black (fol. 1b-2a).
Description: Rubricated ; text commented upon overlined in red ; watermarks (lamb, roman-alphabet countermark initials with trefoil; grapes with crown; circles; flower) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed by ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Ghaffār (fol. 459a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمنالرحيم الحمد لله الذى احكم احكام الشرع القويم بحكم كتابه ... اما بعد فان من المقدمات المقررة عند الى الابصار ...
Colophon: وقد وقع الفراغ من تنميق هذه النسخة الشريفة المباركة المرغوبة بين الواغبين والطالبين ... على يد العبد الضعيف قليل العلم والاحسان كثير الحطاء والعصيان على ابن عبد الغفار ... ويسر له التوبة والائمان حيى سيد الانبياء وصاحب القران مع جميع الاخوان و فبيل الصحى يوم السبت
Binding note
Later? type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Pink paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.
Provenance
Obscured ownership signatures (fol. (i)a and 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1730.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1463932120
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