The dating and content of this small and beautiful Islamic manuscript are still awaiting detailed study. It is undoubtedly a religious book, its small size (10 x 11 cm) making it easy to carry and read. Given its purpose of transmitting the divine word, its pages exhibit a balanced combination of calligraphic precision and ornamental profusion.

The paper is handmade from refined pulp with few impurities; some sheets were made by dyeing the pulp saffron. Gold, red, black, and blue frame the text and predominate in the decorative elements, whether calligraphic or vegetal; white is also used for contrast. The wallet-style binding follows a model maintained since at least the 12th century, with a flap that folds back over the fore-edge, carefully wrapping the entire book and serving as a bookmark. Flat headbands with a herringbone pattern in red and green are also characteristic of this type of binding.

The manuscript had suffered considerable damage to both the text block and the binding. No joining material between the two remained intact, nor was any of the cover padding intact. The leather binding showed multiple losses, abrasions, and tears; the gilt stamping was barely visible. Fortunately, although numerous, the losses of paper support only partially affected the text on one page. Both the stitching and the thread of the headbands were broken or very loose. The double outer leaf of some quires had split, requiring reconstruction. For this, we used the paper's laying pattern—both its direction and the spacing between the margins—and occasionally the watermark as a guide, ensuring that the two halves corresponded to the same original sheet of paper.

The first step, therefore, was to create a diagram of the book's composition and take photographic documentation. The restoration process began with a dry cleaning of each leaf. The last quires, which appeared to have been added to the book block later due to the stitching, had several millimeters of mud along their inner margins; generally, there was an accumulation of dust and dirt in the center of all the quires. After this cleaning, we used a plant-based adhesive to repair tears, graft lost paper, and reassemble divided bifolios. We sewed the book block, reproducing the original stitching—single-thread stitching without a loom or cords, as is typical in Arabic bookbinding. We also reproduced the headbands using the same method: flat headbands with a herringbone pattern embroidered on a leather core, which in turn secure the piece of cloth that joins the book block to the covers. The restoration of the covers consisted of rehydrating and consolidating the leather and grafting the losses with leather of similar quality and tone. Finally, once the book block was reintegrated into the protection of its binding, we made a custom conservation box for the manuscript.