Arabic manuscript on paper, 250 leaves plus a flyleaf, 17 lines to the page, written in neat naskh script in black ink in cloud bands against a gold ground throughout, verses separated by pointed gold florets, surah headings written in red thuluth script against gold ground within foliated cartouches, polychrome and gold verse markers, ruled in gold, opening gold and polychrome double-page frontispiece composed of a thick border of interlacing flowers and split-palmettes, in lacquer binding with floral motifs, doublures with floral compositions

In good condition, the margins are overall clean with only minor annotations, very minor holes in a couple of pages, minor smudges; the opening with tears on the inner side but in very good condition, the binding in very good condition, with only minor crackeleures and minor smudges, as viewed.
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