Kitāb Fatḥ al-jawād bi-sharḥ Manẓūmat Ibn al-ʻImād / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah shaykhinā wa-mawlānā Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Shihāb Aḥmad al-Ramlī al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī / كتاب فتح الجواد بشرح منظومة ابن العماد / تصنيف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة شيخنا ومولانا ابو العباس الشهاب احمد الرملي الانصاري الخزرجي
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي بعث محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم رحمة للعالمين ... :Incipit وكان الفرغ من نصخ هذا المجموع المبارك يوم الجمعة سادس شهر جمادى الاخر سنة تسعة واربعين وتسعماية ... :Colophon Written in one column, 18 or 19 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Fatḥ al-jawād (ff. 7v-38r) is preceded by the text of the "Manẓūmah" (ff. 1r-7r); beginning of the poem is missing. According to colophon (f. 38r), copy completed on 6 Jumādá al-Ākhir [sic] 949 AH [September 16, 1542 AD]. Copy is collated with the author's own copy (on the margin of f. 38r): "balagha muqābalatuhu wa-taṣḥ[īḥuhu] ʻalá aṣl muʼallifihi wa-lillāh al-ḥamd." The composition of the book was finished by his author on 3 Ṣafar 940 AH [August 24, 1533] (f. 38r).
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