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Folio 40b from MS P 27 featuring the top six lines on this folio are the end of an anonymous and untitled Persian treatise on winds and rain, while the text written diagonally over the rest of the folio is the beginning of an Arabic treatise on numerology attributed to Zosimos. The beige paper is nearly matte-finished and the text is written diagonally on each folio in small, compact naskh script with ta‘liq tendencies, using black ink.
MS P 27, fol. 40b
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