Ms. codex. Title from caption title (f. 1v). Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Layout: 15 long lines; border ruled. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq using black ink; pointed, unvocalized. Decoration: Rubrications in red; headings in red set off by gold rules. Illuminated headpiece in gold, purple and green on opening page (f. 1v); textblock border-ruled in gold and black, with an additional red rule on the first opening (f. 1v-2r). Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap on the right side as the book opens (Type II); gilded paper central mandorla onlay with gold tooled pendants and frame. Gilded paper onlay on the flap as well. Origin: Copied in A.H. 1124 (1712) (f. 219r), likely in Turkey. Formerly owned by Aḥmad Rifʻat ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Fākhir al-Z̤amāqavī, known as Ibn Aghū (?) (owner's note and stamp, f. 1r). Formerly owned by Swarthmore College, given to the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 (note in pencil inside front cover).
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