Title from added title (first flyleaf recto at front of book). Pagination: Modern pagination added in pencil, upper outer corners; catchwords every verso, lower left. Layout: Written in 21 long lines. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in red; rubrications in red. Binding: Bound in black leather with gilded, embossed onlay central diamond-shaped medallion and cornerpieces; blind-tooled frame; bright yellow pastedowns. Origin: The copy was completed in Shaʻbān 1150 A.H. (1737 CE) (p. 89). Owners' notes and stamps (first flyleaf recto at front of book, p. [1], 90). One note has the name scrubbed, but the location is Qusṭantinīyah with the date 1226 A.H. (1811 of 1812 CE) (p. [1]). Another note without context contains the name ʻAlī ʻAbd al-Ḥayy Yūsuf (p. [1]). Formerly owned by al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī, [1]179? A.H. (1765 of 1766 CE) (stamp, p. [1]). Formerly owned by al-Sayyid Aḥmad [...]oghlū al-Sayyid Ḥusayn Efendi, 1208 A.H. (1793 or 1794 CE) (note in ink, second flyleaf recto at front of book) Formerly owned by Muḥammad Nāfiʻ, 1276? A.H. (1858 or 1859 CE) (note in ink and stamps, p. [1], stamps, third flyleaf recto at front of book). Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate, inside front cover).
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