Printed volume in black ink with considerable Arabic and Latin marginalia along the page gutters in Arabic in black ink as well. Some marginalia are cross-references with hand-written pagination found at the bottom of the pages. The text is double-boxed in a black frame of a thin and thick line with floral illumination on each side. Titles are in a larger font and centred in the middle of the text. A printed colophon is found on page 324 closing the end of the tenth section.
This is an abridgement of the Nuzhat al-mushtāqq by al-Idrīsī containing a compendium of Arab and Islamic knowledge about geography, natural history and climate.
Олаф Цельсій (1670-1756), профессор богослов’я та східних мов, настоятель кафедрального собору в Упсале. Відомий своїм дослідженням про Ліннея. Найвизначніша праця - "Hiero botanicon" (Упсала, 1745-1747).
