Ms. codex. Title from introduction (f. 3r). Binding: Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with gold tooled chessboard-design central panel and double frame. Flap has coordinating gold tooled frame and dots. Lime green paper pastedowns. Spine and foredge hinge are lighter brown leather. Layout: 11 long lines, border-ruled. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized. Decoration: Rubrications in red. First two openings (f. 1v-3r) have headpieces in gold, two shades of blue, pink and white with the text in cloudbands; textblock is border-ruled in double gold rules; punctuating the text are gold roundels with many different central designs in black surrounded by pink and blue dots. Two full-page illustrations, in perspective, of Mecca (f. 15v) and the Rawḍah... Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933. Provenance: Formerly owned by al-Shaykh al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Shams al-Dīn Nūrī, a member of the Naqshband Sufi order (inscription on f. 104v). Provenance: Formerly owned by Adʹham al-Waṣfī Nūrī (owner's stamp, f. 1r). Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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