Title from colophon (f. 226v). Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto; catchwords every verso lower left. Layout: Written in 21 long lines. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized. Decoration: Rubrications in red; some small flower shapes in red; finispiece with birds in black (f. 226v); four pages of drawings and notes (f. 227r-inside back cover). Binding: Bound in brown leather over thick pasteboard (Type III); faint blind-stamped central mandorla with four pendants, one on each side and frame; red leather spine and corners; horizontal bands along spine. Origin: The copy was completed on 18 Bābah, corresponding to Dhū al-Qaʻdah in the year 1190 A.H. (1776) by Mūsá, Khādim al-Sitt al-Sayyidah in Ḥārat al-Zuwaylah [Cairo] (f. 226v). Watermark: Trelune Several full page doodles of people with swords (f. 227r-228v; inside back cover). Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (note in ink, f. 226v). Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
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