Title from introduction (f. 2v). Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto; catchwords every verso lower left. Layout: Written in 11 long lines. Script: Written in revival naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized. Decoration: Dual-page illuminated first opening in gold with orange and pink flowers (f. 1v-2r); textblock border-ruled in gold; wide gold rules across the full page opening, or framing one side of a page-opening appear throughout the text, but not in the same pattern on each page; gold roundels with blue and orange dots punctuate the text; floral marginal medallions in blue and orange (f... Binding: Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); embossed paper onlays of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; blind-tooled frame and lines connecting mandorla to frame; gilt-stamped floral medallion on flap. Origin: The copy was completed in the middle of Shaʻbān 1182 A.H. (December 1768); the scribe is not named. Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
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