203 folios (9 1/2 x 7 in.; 241 x 178 mm) on paper; modern foliation in pencil in Arabic numerals at upper-outer margin of recto; written in Yemenite square (titles and incipits) and semi-cursive (text body and instructions) scripts in black ink, instructions written with a thinner pen; ruled in blind; intermittent vocalization of selected words; catchwords, often decorated, at foot of virtually every page; marginalia and strikethroughs in hand of primary scribe throughout, with a number of later additions in a different hand. Enlarged titles and incipits; justification of lines via dilation of final letters, insertion of ornamental fillers, and use of abbreviations; headers throughout; instructions intermittently written in Judeo-Arabic; piyyutim often elegantly laid out, at times in two columns; ornamental flourishes often added to letter shin; selihah numeration in margins of ff. 157v-190v, sometimes decorated. Periodic smudging and/or staining; small nick in outer edge of ff. 106r-189v; small hole on f. 142 affecting a couple letters. Earlier, blind-tooled wooden box binding covered in leather with metal knobs and two intact metal clasps, lightly worn; contemporary flyleaves; later newspaper (The Daily Mirror) used for pastedowns.