Title supplied by cataloger. Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Layout: Written in 30 long lines; border-ruled. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Source-text overlined in black; some chapter headings in larger script. Binding: Red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and double frame; binding is detached from textblock. Origin: The copy is undated, though it mentions that the work copied was begun in 742 and finished in 748 A.H. (f. 175r); possibly copied in the 17th or 18th century. Watermark: Trefoil countermark with initials B? and C?; some pages have a large coat of arms (see f. 56 for example). Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
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