Physical description: Material: Eastern laid paperDimensions: 245 x 178 mm leaf [188 x 125 mm written]Foliation: Arabic quire markings in red ink (to f. 90) and black ink (to end), British Museum foliation in pencil.Ruling:
Misṭarah; 21 lines per page and occasionally a few words in the lower margin of verso pages; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cmScript: NaskhInk: Brown ink, with rubricated headings, overlinings, and diagrams in red. The heading of epistle 8 of section two [22] (f. 13r, line 1) in green ink over-written with red, and epistle 10 of section two [24] (f. 102r, line 1) in green ink with red pointing.Decoration: NoneBinding: Red leather binding without flap; blind-tooled central medallion and pendants within a double frame; boards covered with indigo paper.Condition: Generally good; water damage to gutter margin throughout has damaged some text, which has been over-written in places. First and last folios heavily repaired. Insect damage in outer margin (ff. 67-88) has been crudely repaired with paper.Marginalia:Many marginal corrections in the scribal hand, and many notes throughout in a small neat nasta'liq hand (in Arabic); notes on f. 279v are obscured by an ink spillage.Seal of Solomon (f. 1r);Seals:f. 1rBritish Museum seals on f. 1r, f. 279v