KONINKLIJK INSTITUUT VOOR DE TROPEN (KIT) Royal Tropical Institute Amsterdam

1781. KIT H 2187 129 ff.

A ff. 1-30, 46-49, 56-63: Italian handmade laid paper, burnished; wm. Three crescents with V G; illegible. B f. 36: single leaf of laid paper; illegible. C ff. 31-36, 37-41: a much coarser laid paper, wm. with V G; illegible.

D ff. 42-45, 50-55, 67, 116-end: paper with distinctly wove features but with chain lines (very rare; cf. Cod.Or. 7289); wm. Giovanni Battista Ghigliotti (cursive script); Three crescents; illegible.

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ff. 68-115: laid paper; burnished; wm. Star(6-pointed)/La Stella (cursive script); Giov. e Cos/Cin (cursive script); 21 x 16 cm.; Arabic calligraphic writing. Arabic 5 lines per p. and Malay interlinear translation; written on the verso side only; the recto side used for notes; linen cover; donated by P.J.A. Meersmans in 1903. ff. 2v-6v: Arabic grammar; inside the cover page and ff. lr-2r: do'a, dzikir etc.; both pp. written on; 1. ff. 12v-49r: Arabic grammar; 2. ff. 7v-10r: introduction, and notes; 3. ff. 9r-10v: blank; 5 lines per p.; written on the verso side only; Malay interlinear translation and notes in the margin and on the opposite p-; 1. ff. 53v-66v: Arabic grammar; 2. ff. 52v-53r: notes; ff. 69v-129r: Agurrümiyyah; written on the verso side only; Malay interlinear translation and notes marginal and on the opposite pp.;