17.1 x 10.6 cm (12.5 x 6.2 cm).Cream, thick glazed laid paper with some folios blue-green. Boards have flower motifs. Green spine has 19th century ornaments. Page edges cut off during later binding which is damaged, but volume intact. One folio missing between ff. 60-61.Written in taʻlīq script, in one column, 15 lines per page, in black ink. Section headings, years and Arabic phrases in red or red overlined. Catchwords.MS Turk 50. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish; quotations in Arabic and Persian.
Title from f. 1r.According to the colophon (f. 10v), copy completed on 5 Rabīʻ al-awwal 990 AH March 22, 1582 AD in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Abūṣīrī al-Azharī.Unbound.Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red.Cream laid paper. 18 x 13 cm. (13 x 9 cm.).MS Arab 252. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
"According to a muqābalah note on f. 11rcopy is collated with the author's copy in the presence of the author. The author signed the copy in his handwriting in the last days of Shaʻbān 1031 AH June 1622 AD."'Written in one column17 lines per pagein black and red.'Cream laid paper with watermarks. 19.8 x 14 cm. (12 x 7.5 cm.)Unbound.MS Arab 153. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
"According to colophon (f. 7v)copy completed on 26 Cemâziye'l-âhir 1207 AH February 81793 AD in the hand of Ahmed Âmidî."'Written in naskh scriptin one column19 lines per pagein blakc rubricated in red. Overlined words.'20.8 x 15.2 cm (16.5 x 8.5 cm).Thin cream laid paper. No cover. Water-damaged: folios stuck to each other.MS Turk 33. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.
Written in one column, 17 lines per page, in black and red.On f. 1r, ownership statement dated 1138 AH 1725 AD ; ownership seal by Muḥammad Riḍā dated 1134 AH 1721 AD and another one by Khwājah ... al-Dīn dated, 1196 AH 1782 AD.MS Arab SM4154. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.