Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Foliation: Paper, viii + 68 + viii; [1-68]; the original order of the text, using the current foliation, is 1-12, 24-43, 13-22, 44-68; leaves missing between f. 54 and f. 55. Layout: 17 lines in the central text block (with a division marked between the halves of the couplet on each line), followed by 18 lines written diagonally in the margins, which are ruled along the top, outer, and bottom edges of the columns on each page. Several folios contain corrections or notes along the outermost margins; these are written horizontally along the vertical edges when... Script: Written in neat nastaʻlīq script; pointed. Decoration: Illuminated headpiece without a title (f. 1v); columns and diagonal sections in margins outlined in gold; outer margin of text block framed in gold, green, and blue; headings in red ink. Binding: Red morocco with blue painted frame and tooled design of circles along the frame, detached. Doublure same as board covers. Origin: Written in Iran in the 16th century. Fragile; worm damage (suggesting at least a phase of the manuscript's history in South Asia), particularly in gutters; oxidation causing long, straight cuts at the ruled margins of several leaves. Sold by bookseller Thomas Thorpe (London) to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 10465 (stamp, first flyleaf; paper label on spine). Sold at auction at Sotheby's by the Trustees of the Robinson Trust as part of a collection of Persian, Turkish, and Arabic manuscripts owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, 25 November 1968, lot 233, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
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