Extent: 31 leaves : paper, ill. ; 208 x 136 (179 x 105) mm. bound to 211 x 139 mm.
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Ms. codex. Physical description: 15 lines per page, in 1-2 columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on thin glazed, laid Arabic paper. Horizontal text set within blue and gold frame; marginal, diagonal text set within larger outer gold frame. Columns framed in gold. Light smudging and staining, and a few paper repairs to the inner margins. Incomplete at beginning and end. Decoration: Small, somewhat amateurish, illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 1a in gold, blue, and maroon. On fol. 13b-14a are minatures which have been pasted onto the pages at a later date, likely late 19th century. The first shows a man being hung by four men. The second shows a supplicant kneeling before a king on a second storey while a woman brings a small cow up a ladder; on the first floor two... Decoration: The front doublure consists of a sheet of pink paper with gold floral decoration pasted onto a larger sheet of blue paper with black and gold framing. The writing, in shikastah, is likely in the hand of Ḥasan ʻAlī Khān Garrūsī, a well-known civil servant, penman, and calligrapher [1821?-1900]. The back doublure consists of a sheet of white paper pasted onto a larger sheet of yellow...
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