Ms. codex. Title from introduction (f. 1v) Foliation: Foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in red ink, upper left recto [(viii), 1-163, (i)]. Without catchwords. Layout: Written in 25 lines per page in black and red ink with marginalia; main text border-ruled in ink and gilt with text rules in blind; margins frame-ruled in blind; section headings framed in ink and gilt; some section ends within triangular frames of ink and gilt. Five leaves folded (f. 77, 93, 109, 163-[164]). Script: Written in clear nastaʻliq; pointed. Decoration: Illuminated headpiece chiefly gold with red, blue, and orange (f. 1v). Rubrications in red. Binding: Bound in original full green leather tooled in gold; gold-tooled fore-edge and envelope flaps (Type II). Housed in a damaged paper case covered in red leather with head-edge flap and envelope flap; panels of marbled paper pasted to front and back of case; head-edge flap lined with green cloth; envelope flap covered in marbled paper; teal cloth pull with red leather end-tab attached to... Origin: Completed at the end of the month of Jumādá al-Ākhirah in the year A.H. 1221 by Ḥ̣usayn Ḥāmid ibn ʻAbd Allāh, known as Kānkash (f. 163r). Copy has ms. note ("Not Arabic Turkish") in pencil on front pastedown; ms. shelf marks in pencil and blue and black ink (f. [i] recto). Bookseller's printed description affixed to front pastedown. Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (armorial bookplate, front pastedown). Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on bookplate).
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