Extent: iv, 573, iii leaves : paper ; 373 x 235 (258 x 157) mm. bound to 378 x 259 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from accompanying description on loose-leaf paper. Title on spine label incorrectly reads "Javāhir al-tafsīr," which is a larger commentary by Kāshifī that was never completed (Storey, I, 12). Physical description: 28 lines per page; written in calligraphic naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue, gold, black, and orange; āyahs vocalized and rubricated alternately in gold, blue, and red. Some staining and insect damage in margins. Fol. 1, 570-573 have been pasted onto newer sheets of laid European paper. First folio missing. Decoration: Fol. 1a is the second page of a lavishly illuminated two-page spread. Text is written in white on a gold mandorla with pendants, filled with a floral pattern and surrounded by a larger floral/arabesque pattern on blue and gold grounds. The decoration is set within a blue and gold frame which is surrounded by a large blue and gold border containing a similar floral/arabesque... Origin: Copy completed by Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Shīrāzī on 14 Rabīʻ I 976 H [6 September 1568]; the text was orginally written in 899 H [1493 or 4] (fol. 573a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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