Extent: 108 leaves : paper ; 262 x 170 (214 x 114) mm. bound to 265 x 177 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. On spine: Sa'idi Gulistan / Handwritten. Physical description: 12 lines per page; written in large shikastah in black on heavy glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in double gold lines with outer gold border; rubrication and catchwords. Some staining and smudging, particularly at beginning and end of ms. First few leaves have marginal repairs. Otherwise in good condition. Decoration: On fol. 1b-2a, good-quality illuminated two-page spread in gold and color, with illuminated ʻunwān and floral pattern in the margins. On fol. ia: Ownership note by Hartman Lichtwardt [a medical missionary to Iran], 4 October 1922. Subsequently presented by the Lichtwardt family to the Reverend Herbert Beecher Hudnut on 3 May 1959.
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