Extent: 45 folios.
Date of copying: not mentioned; however, it bears the author’s authorization for the copyist, dated 10 Jumada al-Akhirah 850 AH.
Scribe: unknown.
Script: a clear, elegant naskh hand.
Distinctive features:
1 – A complete, meticulously produced copy.
2 – Read aloud to the author—may Allah have mercy on him—two years before his death. The session was a research-level, critical reading conducted by the manuscript’s owner, Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd al-Jawharī al-Ḥanafī, one of the author’s students (1). At the end, the author wrote him an authorization signed: Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, known as Ibn Qamar (2).
3 – Its margins contain completion notices (balāghāt) in the author’s own handwriting.
4 – It carries numerous useful annotations and marginalia.
5 – The copyist distinguished the main text from the commentary with red ink at the top.