Extent: i, 690 foliated leaves : 375 x 210 (270 x 142) mm bound to 390 x 225 mm; paper
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Manuscript codex. Title from colophon (f. 688r). Owner's inscription dated 1327 (1909) written onto f. 1r. Binding: Bound in red leather over pasteboard (Type III) with blind stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces, and 6 cartouches around the edge forming a frame; red leather pastedown and red square-and-star pattern endpapers. Layout: Chiefly 25 lines in 4 columns; prose prefaces in 21 long lines; border-ruled. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Dual-page illuminated first-opening in gold and blue with text on suggestion of cloudbands (f. 1v-2r); illuminated headpieces in gold or gold and blue before each section (f. 15r, 21v, 227v, 406v, 566v); 32 illustrations, some incomplete (f. 24v, 46r, 47v, 50v, 55v, 151v, 154v, 224v-225r, 361r, 364v, 365v, 372v, 380v, 383v, 433v, 436r, 438v-439r, 446v, 448r, 453v, 462r, 469v, 488r... Provenance: Gift of Philip Neufeld, in memory of Margaret Neufeld.
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