Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Foliation: Contemporary foliation in Western Arabic numerals in black ink, upper left recto (unnumbered, 4-100; 1[00]-[1]32). Modern foliation added in pencil to continue the sequence, upper left recto (133-164). A loose quire of 4 bifolia on machine-made paper, paginated (1-7), is laid in at the front of the copy. The first few leaves of the copy are damaged around the edges; the number is... Layout: Chiefly 19 long lines; loose quire in 14 long lines. Script: Written in maghribi in brown ink; pointed, vocalized. Decoration: Rubrications in red. Binding: Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Embossed paper onlay central mandorla and blind tooled intersecting lines and frame on both covers and flap. Origin: Likely copied in Morocco in the second half of the 18th or first half of the 19th century. A prayer, to be said four times in the morning and the evening, has been inscribed on the last flyleaf verso by a later owner.
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