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on pp. 44 - 53. The text provides numerous variant readings not contained in the other manuscripts.

All five manuscripts are late and corrupt in many places. The frequent appearance of the same mistakes in all of them indicates that they derive from a single original that was already quite corrupt. While some emenda- tions proposed in the edition were straightforward، others must remain speculative without much hope that the original text could be fully restored. The Arabic script has been adjusted to modern convention throughout the edition، and missing diacritical dots have regularly been supplied.