Extent: i, 191, ii leaves : paper ; 255 x 165 (167 x 88) mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from colophon (fol. 189b). Incipit: بسم ... لله الحمد قبل كل كلام بصفات الجلال والاكرام Physical description: 15 lines per page, separated in two columns at hemistich by two vertical ruled lines in gold outlined in black. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; headings in red or blue ink in rectangular panels defined by ruled lines in gold outlined in black. The text is framed in ruled lines in red, green, gold, black, and blue and the writing surface is sprinkled with gold. Dark... Decoration: Each daftar begins with an illuminated headpiece with basmalah executed in gold and colors (fol. 1b -- damaged; fol. 132b). Chiefly quaternions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Inscription in Roman script on a spine label: "A114a" (repeated on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover). Horizontal spine label with title in Persian. Origin: According to colophons of Daftar 1 and 2, copied by Dūst Muḥammad ibn Mullā Muḥammad Samarqandī Būstān Khānī in 1010 H. (fol. 131b and 189b). Inscriptions with impressions of seals on fol. 1a, one in the name of Ḥayāt Khān Pādishāh. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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