Extent: 100 leaves : paper ; 170 x 113 (115 x 62) mm. bound to 172 x 116 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from: fol. 2a. Author's name from: fol. 1b. Date from: colophon fol. 98b. 11 lines per page. Written in elegant medium small naskh in black ink. Text enclosed within four-line frame, three inner lines ruled in black ink with first two filled with gold leaf, outer line in red ink. Use of gold leaf circular motif for breaks (some use of red ink, only at the start). Illuminated openings (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b and fol. 18b, gilt with red, blue, green, purple and orange... Copied by al-Ḥājj Aḥmad al-Nūrī, "min talāmīdh al-Hājj Shaykh Maḥmūd al-Ḥāmidī" in 1217 -- colophon (fol. 98b). Manuscript additions: Some marginal corrections to the main text and a note in same hand on the margin of fol. 95b to the effect that the work was collated over a period of time by Abū al-Asʻād Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Qunāwī al-Ḥanafī al-Khalwatī al-Naqshibandī. The collation was completed on the 13th of Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1219 (1804). Loose sheet (102 x 75 mm) inside lower cover, in Ottoman, possibly a fragment from an Ottoman translation of, or a commentary on the work.
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