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<dl><dd>Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002</dd>
<dd>119 leaves : 200 x 125 (135 x 70) mm, bound to 202 x 137 mm</dd>
<dd>Collection of works, mostly selections from larger works, in Arabic and Persian, on Arabic grammar; copied in the same hand. A table of contents was written in at the front (f. 1r). The last three works are in Persian, of those, the two shorter works (5, 6) are in the form of questions and answers</dd>
<dd>Manuscript codex</dd>
<dd>Collective title supplied by cataloger; titles of other works from added table of contents</dd>
<dd>1. f. 1v-51r: Kāfiyah / Ibn al-Ḥājib -- 2. f. 51v-61r: Fī al-ḥurūf allatī tajurru al-asmāʼ faqaṭ -- 3. f. 61r-71r: ʻAwāmil fī al-naḥw / ʻAbd Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Rahmān Jurjānī -- 4. f. 71r-80r: Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī -- 5. f. 81v-87r: Asʼilah fī al-naḥw -- 6. f. 87r-90v: Asʼilah fī al-ṣarf -- 7. f. 90v-119r: Kitab al-mukhtaṣarāt</dd>
<dd>Layout: 9 long lines</dd>
<dd>Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink</dd>
<dd>Decoration: Rubrications in red</dd>
<dd>Origin: Item is undated, probably copied in the 18th century</dd>
<dd>Shelfmark: MS Or 359</dd>
<dd>Flag with text "Gottheil" in pencil inserted between f. 40v-41r; possibly a reference to Richard J. H. Gottheil</dd>
<dd>Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934</dd>
<dd>Bound in blue black paper over pulpboard with paper onlays: central mandorla and two red pendants on the vertical axis; pink textile spine. Most of the paper side on the back is missing</dd>
<dd>Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description</dd>
<dd>Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR</dd>
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