Ms. codex. Title from introduction (f. 2r). Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Some contemporary pagination in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black pen, upper outer corners (1-50 only). References in the record are to the modern foliation. Layout: 19 long lines; frame ruled. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq; pointed, unvocalized. Decoration: Rubrications in red. Numerous diagrams in red and black (f. 3r, 4v, 7r, 8r-8v, 14r, 22v, 25v, 26v, 31v, 33v, 34v, 35v, 36v, 37v-38v, 40v, 42v, 44r, 52v, 56v-57r, 62v, 65r, 70r, 70v-71v, 73r, 74r-74v, 75v, 79v, 81v, 83v, 87r-87v, 92v-93r [diagram across full opening], 93v, 99r, 101v-102r, 103v, 104v, 106r-107r, 124r, 127r-128r, 133v, 135r, 144v, 147v, 151r-152r, 153r-153v, 159r). Binding: Brown leather covers over pasteboard with black textile spine; thin leather doublure; blind stamped mandorla with gold tooled outline on outside covers with gold tooled pendants, and frame. Origin: Copy completed on A.H. 25 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 960 (20 April 1553) by Ṣ̣adr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Kamāl al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī (f. 164r). Formerly owned by Qāsim al-Īrawānī (owner's note and stamp, f. 1r). Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
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