Manuscript codex. Title from colophon (f. 148v). Catalog entries pasted onto last flyleaf verso: lot 513 in French, lot 375 in English. Notes (f. 149v) and one owner's stamp, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥusaynī, 1247, (f. 2r). Binding: Lacquered boards; outside covers depict flowers and birds on a reddish ground with a gold frame; inside covers have a central mandorla containing a bird and flowers and two pendants on the vertical axis each with a bunch of flowers depicted all on a black ground with gold floral fill, surrounded by a gold, patterened frame. Layout: 27 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah. Script: Written in clear nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Textblock of first opening border-ruled in gold and black with the top of the first page ruled in gold and blue as if for a headpiece, but left unilluminated (f. 1v-2r); rubrications in red. Provenance: Formerly owned by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥusaynī in 1247 A.H. (1831 or 1832 CE) (f. 2r). Provenance: Sold at an American Art Association auction, Selections from the Charles F. Gunther collection : sold by order of the Chicago Historical Society, 12 November 1925, lot 375. Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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