Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Two bookplates and a card pasted into front inside cover; a note of ownership in Persian in ink on page 1 and poems by that owner's son, ʻAbd Allāh, written onto the last leaf (p. 428). Binding: Rebound in 1918 by H. Zucker of Philadelphia in red leather with gold tooled spine, turn-ins, border and frame with gold-tooled flowers in the corners and centered along each side between the border and the frame; Hafiz is gold-stamped on the spine; plain brown pastedowns. Layout: 15 lines in two columns; border-ruled. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold with green, purple and blue flowers (p. 2); each page is border-ruled in gold, red, and blue with the page-opening ruled in blue; the columns are divided by double gold rules. Provenance: Formely owned by Ḥayāt Allāh Khān Bahādur in the 20th year of Muḥammad Shāh Pādishāh's reign (=1739) (note in ink p. 1). Provenance: Formerly owned by Turner Macan (bookplate inside front cover). Provenance: Formerly owned by Mitchell S. Buck (bookplate inside front cover). Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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