An Arabic manuscript on thin paper, 204 leaves, 21 lines to each page written in a disciplined naskh script in black ink, vowel points and diacritics in black and red ink, gold verse markers pointed in red and blue, inner and outer margins rules in gold, catchwords in wide margins, occasional illuminated marginal devices, surah headings written in thuluth script in blue ink on illuminated panels, one double page of illumination in colours and gold lacquer binding. Covers decorated with designs of massed flowers on a green ground. Inside the cover doublures decorated with narcissus plants on a red ground, 18.8 by 11.5 cm