Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Catalog entry from sale pasted onto f. 43v. Binding: Bound in plain dark brown paper over pasteboard with marbled paper doublure. Layout: Numerous sets of two concentric circles with a name written inside the interior circle and color filled in between the two circles connected by lines to other circle-sets. Text appears at angles among the circles. The first two pages are introductory material written diagonally, f. 1v is fully written and f. 2r is written in a 150 x 130 mm box. Script: Written in nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Each page-opening is frame-ruled in green. Rubrications in red. Circles are chiefly either blue or green, but also include orange and closer to the end of the work, red, silver, pink, and yellow. A few circles contain more than one color (f. 36rv-38r, for example). The colored portion of the circle is also sometimes decorated with gold zigzag patterns. Red lines connect the circles... Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933. Provenance: Formerly owned by James Bassett; inscription "from Rev Dr. Bassett, late missionary, 1886" (note in pencil, f. 43v). Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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