Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Paper, 150; 1-1510. Catchwords on each page, lower left verso. Layout: Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed . Decoration: Simple gilt headpieces, some with titles entered in red and others empty; textblock border-ruled in red; red dots with tails punctuate the text. Binding: Red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); flap does not fit the fore-edge of the textblock, possibly a re-purposed cover; blind stamped circular flowers in center, on corners and in the middle of each edge; blind-tooled frame. Origin: The item is undated, probably late 18th or early 19th century. Watermark: Walking lion. Sold by bookseller Thomas Thorpe to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 2370 (spine label, stamp on f. 1r). Sold at auction at Sotheby's in a sale of Phillipps manuscripts, 25 Nov. 1968, lot 242. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012. Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
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