Extent: i, 526, ii leaves : paper, col. ill. ; 340 x 220 (242 x 143) mm. bound to 342 x 225 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Physical description: 24-25 lines per page, in four columns; written in small nastaʻliq in black by more than one hand on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text occasionally written on a diagonal. Text framed in gold, green, red, and blue; columns separated by double gold lines. Catchwords; headings in red and blue. Some paper repairs to borders; fol. 3-6 remounted on new borders and last folio... Decoration: On fol. 1b-2a, lavishly illuminated ʻunwāns in gold and color. Text on fol. 2b-3a set within clouds on gold background. With 37 miniatures by different artists, probably late 18th century; on leaves with miniatures, the margins are decorated with gold flowers. Some miniatures lightly smudged or damaged. Origin: Copy completed in Samarqand at the end of Ṣafar 1009 H [September 1600] by at least two scribes, one of whom is Mīr Māh ibn Mīr ʻArab, "the nephew of Mīr Kulangī Kātib-i Bukhārī" (fol. 526a). Owner's stamps on fol. 526a.
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