The date corresponds to January 1, 1799.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī qaṣṣa lanā min āyātihi ʻajaban, ḥamdan arghama bi-hi anfa man jaḥada wa-abā ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله الذي قصّ لنا من آياته عجبًا، حمدًا ارغم به أنف من جحد وأبا ..."
Good naskhī, in red, green, and black.
Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap.
The second half wanting.
Colophon: "Wa-kāna al-farāgh ʻalá yad ... al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Kaftānī ... Wa-kāna al-farāgh nahār al-Thulāthāʼ, ḍuḥāt al-nahār, fī shahr Rajab ... ḥ minhu, 23, sanat 1213 ..."
الخاتمة: "وكان الفراغ على يد ... الشيخ محمد بن الشيخ مصطفى الكفتاني ... وكان الفراغ نهار الثلاثاء، ضحات [ضحاة] النهار، في شهر رجب ... ح منه، 23، سنة 1213 ..."
Translation of the colophon: "It was completed by the hand of ... al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Kaftānī ... on the forenoon of Tuesday, the 8th [tenth (?)] of the month of Rajab, the 23rd day of it, of the year 1213 [of the Hijrah = 1 January 1799] ..."