Extent: 108 leaves : paper ; 291 x 191 (179 x 103) mm. bound to 294 x 197 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from fol. 1a by later hand. On fol. 2a, label reading "1137" in Arabic script. Text is followed by one page of rubāʻīyāt on fol. 108a. Physical description: 15 lines per page, in 1-2 columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on heavy, tan, glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue, black and gold; rubrication in blue and gold. Catchwords. Some staining and water damage, particularly at beginning and end of ms. Otherwise in good condition. Decoration: On fol. 2b, well-executed illuminated ʻunwān in a floral pattern, mainly in gold and blue. Basmalah written in black in central lozenge with gold ground decorated with black foliar pattern. Circular illuminated ornament, partially smudged, on fol. 1a. Origin: Copy completed in the middle of Ramaḍān 946 H [January 1540] by Muḥammad Qāsim ibn Luqmān Jāmī (fol. 107b). Birth notices on fol. 108b dated 1336, 1299, and 1301.
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