رسالة د. كهلان الخروصي

… Finally the date of E is too disputable. E concludes with a colophon that records the date to be Thursday of Ramadan the year 41/661. This appears to indicate that the actual date is one thousand and forty one (1041/1631)، on the assumption that the scribe has omitted the thousand either because it is quite usual to do so at the first century of every new millennium. This is perhaps more likely than that it was a slip of the pen.

B. The First Tunisian Copy (T1)

This is one of the copies that Ennami was able to use when he edited and studied Ajwibat ibn Khalfƒn. From the numbering of this copy، which is most probably done by him، it is easy to tell that this was the copy that he gave the siglum ) أ ( in his edition of Ajwibat ibn Khalfƒn. This Tunisian copy will be referred to as T1 in this thesis. I have used a photocopy of it from the archive of Dr. John Wilkinson، now at Exeter University، as my attempts to have access to the original manuscript from Tunis were unsuccessful.