gold ink

Evidence

"The first five pages (fols 1a-3a)... are copied in alternating rows of gold and blue tawqīʿ... Headings throughout the manuscript are written in gold naskh."

Remarks

The introduction features alternating rows of gold and blue text. Gold is also used in a headpiece on folio 3b in muḥaqqaq script (p. 150). This application is described as very unusual for the period (p. 150).