Devotional manuscript codex with passages from the Koran, ink on paper and leather binding

Handwritten codex in Arabic composed of 83 leaves, of which both the first 3 and the last 2 subsequently inserted and left blank. It is presumed that it was composed for devotional and magical-apotropaic purposes by an individual or by a Sufi religious brotherhood.
Average sheet size: mm. 156 x 91; average dimensions of the writing mirror: mm. 98 x 60.
The decorative apparatus of simple gold-colored bands and shaped rosettes with hints of petals between the verses suggests an Iranian-oriental origin.

The structure of the manuscript is structured as follows:

Initial textual gap: the text begins in the middle of sura XXXVI (Yā Sīn), and then continues without interruption to report the texts of the following suras in full:

– Sura XLVIII (al-Fatḥ, “The Victory”);

– Sura LV (ar-Raḥman, “The Merciful”);

– Sura LVI (al-Wāqiˁa, “The Inevitable”);

– Sura LXVII (al-Mulk, “The Kingship”);

– Sura LXXVIII (an-Nabā', “The Announcement”);

– Sura CII (at-Takātur, “Numerical Abundance”);

– Sura CXII (al-'Iḫlāṣ, “Purity”);

– Sura CXIII (al-Falaq, “The Dawn”);

– Sura CXIV (an-Nās, “Human Beings”);

and excerpta of various extensions from the suras

– Sura II (al-Baqara, “The Cow”);

– Sura LVIII (al-Muǧādala, “The Argumentator”);

– Sura V (al-Mā'ida, “The Table”);

– Sura LXXIII (al-Muzzammil, “He Who Wrapped Himself”);

as well as four final pages of devotional prayers to be chanted as litanies.

Both the ˁunwān and the colophon are absent: there is therefore no mention of the date, the copyist or any other information by which this manuscript can be unequivocally dated or located