Ms. codex. Title from title page (f. 1r). Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with gold-tooled central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; inside covers of brown leather with a filigree patterned central mandorla in black and gold over green textile; gold-tooled corners and frame. Layout: Written in 33 long lines; frame ruled with a misṭarah. Some marginal headers; many marginal notes. Script: Written in naskh in black ink with titles in thuluth in red ink; pointed. Decoration: Illuminated frontispiece and title page in three registers with the main space colored blue with corner pieces in gold and colors and a central shamsah containing the subtitle and author's name in gold; the title appears in gold and white in a rectangle above with a third register above that with decoration in polychrome and gold (f. 1r); polychrome and gold headpiece and circular... Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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