Ms. composite codex.
Title provided by cataloger, from title of text 1 (rubric, fol. 2b).
Physical description: Text 1 written in medium small thick nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 20 lines per page (162 x 75 mm.), on European paper with watermark. Important annotations on the margins, between the lines, and on small pieces of paper pasted between the original leaves. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a-2a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts some but not all leaves pasted between the original fol.; this record follows the existing foliation).
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 72". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "1041/2 Ḥ".
Origin: According to colophons, copy of text 1 completed on a Thursday in Muḥarram 1161 [Jan. 1748], during the reign of Salīm Khān, in the Madrasat ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Afandī, by Islām ibn Bayrām Ghāzī ... (fol. 167a). Copy of text 3 completed in the middle of Shaʻbān 1228 [Aug. 1813] in Qusṭanṭinīyah by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Asīrī(?) (fol. 200a).