Pp. [1-2] have thin triple borders in black and red with gold ink; remainder of text rubricated with red borders; wide margins with embossed diagonal rules provided for commentary; copyist same as that of Mich. Isl. Mss. 805,2-4.Date and copyist's name in colophon: wa-qad tamma ʻan yad aḍʻaf al-ʻibād al-sayyid Aḥmad al-Ḥamdī ibn Muḥammad ibn Amr Allāh al-ʻAlāʾī sanat khams wa-thamānīn wa-miʾatayn baʻd al-alf fī al-yawm al-khāmis ʻashar min Rajab [i.e. 1 November 1868].Text (not this copy) published.Pp. [1-12]. Bound with: [2] Muḥammad ibn Asʻad Jalāl al-Dawwānī, commentary on al-Zawrāʾ, pp. [13-34]; [3] same author, Khuṭbat a-zawrāʾ, pp. [35-39]; [4] Mūsá ibn Muḥammad Qāḍī Zādah, Sharḥ al-mulakhkhaṣ, pp. [40-212].Essay on philosophy and mysticism.