Extent: i, 303, i leaves : 175 x 120 (108 x 54) mm bound to 175 x 127 mm; paper
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Manuscript codex. Title supplied by cataloger. A short prayer written in red on machine-made paper is laid in. Binding: Bound in dark red leather over pasteboard with flap that does not fit the textblock (Type II); fading gilt and red stamped paper onlays of central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces. Layout: Written in 15 long lines; border-ruled. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Decoration: Dual-page illuminated first opening in gold, blue, green, and yellow with red and blue radiant finials in the margins (f. 1v-2r); textblock border-ruled in gold, black and red; gold roundels mark verse ends; sūrah beginnings set off by gold bar across the textblock; readings and text partition markers in red; floral marginal medallions in sets of two colors (orange and blue, or... Provenance: Gift of Katharine Strauss Mali, Bryn Mawr College 1923, on 15 March 1956.
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