Extent: ii, 629, ii leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 403 x 254 (257 x 140) mm. bound to 410 x 263 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from title page (fol. 1a). Physical description: 25 lines per page, in four columns; written in small nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text occasionally written on a diagonal. Text framed in gold and blue, with marginal red border; columns separated by double gold lines. Original leaves mounted on new borders of glazed, laid European paper. Fol. 255, 386-387, 431, 488 are replacements; on fol. 386... Decoration: Title page on fol. 1b elaboratedly illuminated in gold and color which have faded somewhat. On fol. 13b, illuminated ʻunwān in gold and color. Headings in blue in a rectangular frame decorated in gold and color. Spaces between diagonal text illuminated with pattern similar to headings. With 33 well-preserved miniatures of high quality, likely 16th century. Origin: Copy completed in Jumādá I 951 H [July-August 1544] (fol. 629a). On fol. 13b, owner's seal of Amān Allāh accompanied by a note stating that he presented the ms. to Yūsuf Khān Sarhang in Kurdistān in 1265 H [1848 or 9].
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