Titles supplied by cataloger. Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Layout: Written in 7 long lines; border-ruled in two styles; some marginalia. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized. Decoration: First text border-ruled in double red with a single red page-opening frame rule. Second text ruled in gold for a headpiece on the opening page with polychrome textblock border-rules and page-opening frame rule (f. 83v-84r); textblock on all other pages border-ruled in red with the page-opening framed in red. Rubrications in red in both texts. Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); central mandorla paper onlay and blind ruled frame with coordinating onlay and rules on flap; gold embossed paper doublure. Origin: The first text was completed in 1023 A.H. (1614 CE) (f. 80r). The second text is undated, but was probably copied later, perhaps in the later 17th or 18th century. Several watermarks: In the first work, a crown-crescent, and a flower; in the second work, a crown over the initials GF and FL and a full page design of a central oval with several curling points coming off of both ends. Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
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