4 – In the margin are completion notices (balāghāt) written in the author’s own hand.
5 – It also contains marginalia and useful annotations.
The seventh manuscript, denoted by the letter “zāy” (ز):
A handwritten copy housed in the Ḥakīm Oghlu Library, within the Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul, Turkey.
Shelfmark: (155).
Extent: (40) folios.
Date of copying: Shawwal, 852 AH.
Scribe: Maḥmūd ibn Ismāʿīl al-ʿAynī.
Script: a fine, clear naskh hand.
Distinctive features:
1 – A complete and carefully executed copy.
2 – Written during the author’s lifetime, two months before his passing.
3 – It contains a few corrections.
4 – The scribe distinguished the main text from the commentary by writing the former in red ink above.
The eighth manuscript, denoted by the letter “ḥāʾ” (ح):
A handwritten copy preserved in the Aya Sofya Library, within the Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul, Turkey.
Shelfmark: (440/1).