Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Foliation: First 100 pages numbered by a later hand in purple Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper outer corners. Modern western numeral foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on every verso, lower left. References in the record are to modern foliation. Layout: 15 long lines with border rules. Script: Written in naskh using black ink; pointed, vocalized. Decoration: Sūrah titles in white ink, framed in gold and floriated designs; textblock ruled in gold and black; gold roundels with red and blue dots at end of each verse; readings marked in red; text partitions (ḥizb) marked in the margins by polychrome and gold medallions; double page illumination in gold, blue, and red with text on cloudbands in first opening (f. 1v-2r); tailpiece of gold... Binding: Dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) and red leather spine; blind stamped mandorla with two pendants and cornerpieces on both covers and flap; gilded red paper onlays with gold tooled pattern and frame; gold tooled pattern on foredge flap. Green paper doublure with green textile foredge hinge doublure. Origin: Copied in A.H. 1119 (1708) by ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusnī ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbdī al-Lārndawī (f. 304r). Errata sheet laid in ("hādhā al-muṣḥaf mukhālif li-al-rasm al-ʻuthmānī"). Formerly owned by Mrs. William McClenahan, likely Jean P., wife of Dr. William U. McClenahan, given to the libraries in 1969 (note in pencil on flyleaf 1v).
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