![]() ![]() The text starts abruptly with al-Haykal al-awwal الهيكل الأول as follows: Paper, script and front cover point to a Mamluk origin, perhaps the 8th/14th century. ![]() Only the original of the front cover is preserved it has in the centre an ornament filled with flowers and remnants of a geometrical frame of which each corner and the middle of every side is provided with a small triangle consisting of three geometrical points. Thick brownish and spotted paper, in part damaged, worm-eaten and rubbed, in a few cases with some loss of text the first page is replaced by a later hand who wrote on the inside of the front cover. 118 folios 7×9 cm 5 lines vocalized muhaqqaq محقق, chapter-headings in thuluth ثلث and written in yellow ink, as can be found in Mamluk manuscripts of the 8th/14th century: compare David James, Qur'ans of the Mamluks (London 1988). ![]()
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