The twelfth copy, coded “L” (1):
This is a manuscript kept at the Ẓāhiriyyah Library in Damascus, Syria.
Catalogue number: 9217.
Total folios: 36.
Date of completion: the 2nd of the Sacred Month (Muharram), 838 AH.
Scribe: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Suwaydkin al-Shāfiʿī al-Maqdisī (2).
Script: a standard naskh hand.
Distinctive features:
1 – A complete copy, except for a single leaf at the beginning that was supplied by a later hand; the photographic reproduction also shows a lacuna roughly the size of one folio within the text.
2 – Some words are furnished with vowel marks.
3 – Copied from a manuscript that had itself been copied from a copy bearing the author’s own handwriting.
4 – It was read aloud to the author: his student Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn Abī Sharīf (3) recited it to him, and the author penned on it attestations of audition in his own hand.