Ms. codex. Title from caption title (f. 1v). Catalog entry describing the manuscript pasted onto the inside front cover. Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Covers painted with frames of gold, red, and orange with a gold tooled diaper grid central fill, somewhat effaced. Coordinated design on flap. Silver sprinkled pink paper doublure. Layout: 11 lines in two columns. Gold rules between and around columns. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black; pointed. Decoration: Rubrications in red. Dual page illuminated floriate borders of gold and red with illuminated headpiece in gold, pink, blue and red (f. 1v-2r). Illuminated finispiece in silver, gold, red, pink with floral motifs (f. 40v). Gold circular medallion, as if for a colophon or dedication (f. 41r). All pages border ruled in gold and green double rules with gold double rules between the... Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933. Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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