Extent: i, 50, i leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 279 x 176 (229 x 131) mm.
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Physical description: 25 lines per page, in four columns; written in small nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue, gold, orange, and green; columns separated by double gold lines. Catchwords; headings in red. Some staining, smudging, and paper repairs. First leaf of text 2 missing. Detached from binding. Decoration: Illuminated ʻunwāns in gold and color, somewhat smudged, on fol. 1b, 26b; illuminated ending on fol. 26a. Illustrated with three good-quality miniatures painted over parts of the original text, likely from the 19th century. Origin: Copy completed in Ramaḍān 1067 H [June-July 1657] by Muḥammad Afḍal ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad al-Kātib Dasht-Bayāḍī (fol. 50a). Stamps dated 1341 on fol. 1a, 50b. Acquired by R. G. Ananikian from Egypt, 1924 (fol. 1a). Ex libris of Robert Garrett on inside front cover.
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