The text is different from the prayers called hijab حجاب or hirz حرز in mss. 92r-118v: Prayers, called hijab حجاب, asking for protection against evils. seems to be the oldest copy so far known. Berlin 3665//1 deserves a detailed investigation. Princeton 1965 its relation to them as well as to mss. Nevertheless, our text is apparently longer than Ms. has not, however, the introduction which explains the marvellous power of the seven hayakil, the prayers and the praise of God. The text is, as the beginning of the first haykal shows, identical with Ms.

55v continues with al-Haykal al-sadis الهيكل السادس, fol. The text starts abruptly with al-Haykal al-awwal الهيكل الأول as follows: Paper, script and front cover point to a Mamluk origin, perhaps the 8th/14th century. Only the original of the front cover is preserved it has in the centre an ornament filled with flowers and remnants of a geometrical frame of which each corner and the middle of every side is provided with a small triangle consisting of three geometrical points. Thick brownish and spotted paper, in part damaged, worm-eaten and rubbed, in a few cases with some loss of text the first page is replaced by a later hand who wrote on the inside of the front cover.

118 folios 7×9 cm 5 lines vocalized muhaqqaq محقق, chapter-headings in thuluth ثلث and written in yellow ink, as can be found in Mamluk manuscripts of the 8th/14th century: compare David James, Qur'ans of the Mamluks (London 1988).

عصر سلاطين المماليك by قاسم عبده قاسم