Title from added title page. Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto; catchwords every verso lower left. Layout: Written in 29 long lines. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; titles in thuluth in red; pointed and vocalized. Decoration: Rubrications in red. Binding: Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard which is beginning to separate; faint blind-stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and frame; black textile spine reinforcement. Origin: Copy completed between Muḥarram 1100 (f. 117r) and Muḥarram 1102 (f. 213v) (1688-1689 CE) . The final section is dated the end of Ṣafar 1100 A.H. (f. 240r), which might be a mistake. The copy was made by Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Karjī, a student of Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir (f. 28v, 94r, 117r, 138r, 167v, 213r, 240r). Kabīkaj invocation (first flyleaf recto at front of book). The name Ghulām Bahāʼ al-Dīn inscribed in ink (f. 266v). Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
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