Physical description: Material: PaperDimensions: 256 x 172 mm leaf [192 x 118 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic-Indic foliation in pencilRuling:
Misṭarah; 22 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cmScript:
NaskhInk: Black iron-gall ink; occasional punctuation, marginalia and some of the text in red perhaps by a later handDecoration: Decorative owner's inscription in gold (f. 1r); gold ink used for punctuation on first opening (ff. 1v-2r); silk page markers are used to indicate beginnings of textsBinding: British Museum bindingCondition: Minor waterstains, some wormholes, ff. 1-8 and 128-131 laminated with heat-set tissue; tears to the margins of f. 1 and to the upper corners of ff. 9-17 repairedMarginalia: Marginal corrections, annotations, and collation notes by various hands
Physical description: Material: A mixture of thin, shiny western laid papers, some with watermarksDimensions: 285 x 191mm leaf [190 x 113mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil.Ruling:
Misṭarah; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cmScript:
NastaʿlīqInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in redDecoration: NoneBinding: Red leather case binding with blind-tooled medallion and pendants on both boardsCondition: Generally good; occasional staining throughout. A wormhole from f. 263 to end is repaired on each folio with paper.Marginalia: Little except around beginnings and ends of the first three texts and throughout the last two texts in the volume (ff. 204v; 214v-217v; and ff. 262v-311r)Seals: f. 2r; British Museum stamp: ff. 2r, 26r, 50r, 93r, 155r, 187r, 249r, 297r and 311r
"Contents: Ff. 6v-9v blank. Fragment of a medical treatise (ff. 10r-53r). Medical notes and a medical chapter by later hands (ff. 53v-56v). Ff. 57-59 blank. Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi's Igeret Beḥinat ha-ʻOlam (ff. 60-81). Calendar by Yitsḥaḳ ben Yeḥiʼel ha-Leṿi (ff. 82v-85v). Calendrical notes in various hands (ff. 86-98)."
Physical description: Material: PaperDimensions: 155 x 80 mm leaf [128 x 47 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic pagination in black inkRuling: Misṭarah; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 19 lines per 10 cmScript: NaskhInk: Black ink; headings, titles and occasional text stops in gold; frames in red, blue and gold; illuminations in black, red, blue, green and goldDecoration: Table of contents on title page (f. 1r) illuminated in black, red, blue, green and gold; kufic
basmalahilluminated in black, red, blue, green and gold in rectangles spanning tops of ff. 1v and 2r;
basmalahilluminated in black, red, blue, green and gold in rectangles at upper margin with foliate indicators in margin towards fore-edge on ff. 21v and 33vBinding: Islamic binding in red leather with envelope flap; blind tooled foliated frame, large corner pieces, medallion and pendants on covers and flap; pastedowns and flyleaves front and back of paper painted bright yellow, varnished and polishedCondition: Moderate damage to leaves due to worms and ink corrosion repaired especially in first half of volumeMarginalia: Owners' notes on title page (f. 1r); very few marginal corrections (e.g. ff. 1v and 23r); one longer not has been preserved during trimming and extends beyond the average leaf dimensions (f. 22v)
Physical description: Material: PaperDimensions: 174 x 124 mm leaf [130 x 94 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencilRuling:Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 4v-27v);Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing lines per 10 cm (ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r);No ruling visible; average 18 lines per page; 16 lines per 10 cm (ff. 105v-108v)Script: NaskhInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and over lining in redBinding: British Museum binding in brown leatherCondition: minor waterstains, some foxing and light grime from thumbing, some folios torn and repaired (e.g. ff. 10, 11 and 68)Marginalia: Occasional marginal annotations and corrections