A poem dealing with the Sunnite creed in question and answer form. The poem is written
in 52 kāmil verses and rhymes with the letter dāl. f. 62a: 10 verses from the ʿAqīdah by Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan
ʿAlī ibn Muḥmmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn al-Jawzī (gest. 597/1200; EI2 III/751-752; GAL I/499-506
S I/914-920; Kaḥḥālah V/157-158; Ziriklī III/316-317) collation note
Light brown Oriental leather binding with fore-edge flap and envelope flap; central
ornament of the covers: mandorla with lobed perimeter and an infill of floral scrolls,
corners embellished with crescent stamps and a fleuron stamp, covers framed with multiple
ruled lines and a border of cross stamps; the ornamentation of the envelope-flap is
similar to that of the covers; multiple ruled lines and two blank cartouches adorn
the fore-edge flap; doublures of the covers made of paper, that of the two flaps of
leather
