paper
All volumes bound in bright red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Covers have gold tooled frame, corner decoration and outline of central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. Central mandorla is embossed, yellow-brown paper onlay. Flap has coordinating onlay inside a gold tooled pendant. Doublures are plain paper cut with a decorative scalloped edge along one side. All but one of the flaps have become disconnected.
All volumes were copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ Bannānī; some volumes have dates in the colophons: v. 1: 1276 A.H. (f. 221r); v. 2: 1268 A.H. (f. 162v); v. 4: 1274 A.H. (f. 269v).