Ms. codex. Title from title of main text, in introduction (f. 4r). Foliation: The table of contents gives folio numbers, though the folios themselves are only sporadically numbered in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto. Modern continuous foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the modern foliation. Layout: 11 long lines border-ruled with 12-13 marginal lines at angles mostly along the outside long edge. Script: Written in several different styles of naskh in black ink. Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in gold and black; page opening ruled in black. Two full-page polychrome illustrations of Mecca (f. 15v) and Medina (f. 16r). Polychrome headpieces in gold, red, blue, orange (f. 3v, 17v). Rubrications in red; some headings in white ink on gold background with blue. Binding: Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Covers are brown leather blind stamped with double-line frame, mandorla, two pendants along the vertical axis and cornerpieces; flap has coordinating stamp. Green marbled paper doublure on flap and hinge. Origin: Copy is not dated, but the compiler refers to a visit to Mecca that his teacher, Muḥammad ʻAqīlah, took at the beginning of Shawwal, 1123 (November, 1711) (f. 135v). Formerly owned by William Camac; bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania in the Camac Memorial Collection, received in 1904.
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