Ms. leaves. Layout: Written in 8 long lines of Arabic in large Bahari script on a gold-washed ground; Arabic text separated by narrow bands in burnished gold with interlinear Persian commentary in red; ruled lines in black, red, green, and blue, form a border around the text block; outer rulings in black, filled in with burnished gold and red. Catchwords in lower left margins on verso. Script: Bahari, written in black ink; interlinear commentary is Nasta'liq, written in red; marginal annotations written in Shikasteh in black. Scripts identified by Robert Hillenbrand. Decoration: Sura divisions marked by cartouches in gold on blue grounds with gold foliage, headings in red; verses marked with burnished gold disks; marginal medallions in gold with blue, red, and black; commentary in Persian written in red; marginal commentary written on the diagonal in black, one prayer added in red on fol. a, recto. Origin: Written and illuminated in India, 17th-18th century; attribution made in consultation with Robert and Carole Hillenbrand. Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 024. Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962.
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