Extent: iii, 392, i leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 300 x 201 (188 x 109) mm. bound to 302 x 210 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from fol. 2b-3a. On inner front cover: Label reading "Douane Centrale Paris." Physical description: 19 lines per page, in four columns; written in small nastaʻliq in black on beige glazed, laid Arabic paper. Original leaves mounted on new borders of red, green, and blue marbled paper. Text bordered by gold, orange, and blue with outer marginal orange or blue border; columns separated by two gold lines. Text occasionally written on a diagonal. Repairs to original leaves... Decoration: On fol. 2b-3a, lavishly illuminated two-page spread in gold, blue, and other colors, containing the title of the volume in gold and the beginning of the first text in white. ʻUnwans for each text, the pages facing them, and the pages facing the miniatures elaborately illuminated in gold and colors. Headings in white and set in gold boxes containing a floral pattern and bordered by... Origin: Copy completed by Mawlānā al-Kātib al-Shīrāzī in 970 H [1562 or 3] (fol. 392a--part of colophon is missing due to paper repair).
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