Ms. codex. Title from caption title (f. 1v). An owner's stamp and note (f. 1r). The name in the note is Jān Sipār Khān ibn Rustamdilkhān ibn Jān Sipār Khān al-Ḥusaynī al-Mukhtār al-Sabzawārī; the note also mentions that this was a gift from Nawwāb Ṣāḥib Qiblah Nawwāb Mukhtār Khān in the year 1122 A.H. (1710 CE). The name in the seal is the same, with a different formulation: Jān Sipār Khān, Khānahʹzād-i Shah-i ʻĀlam Pādishāh Muʻaẓẓam... Typwritten note in purple ink pasted in: "A specimen of fine calligraphy with seal of Emperor Aurangzeb" (f. 12v). Binding: Bound in modern black cloth. Layout: 9 lines chiefly in two columns with the first, fourth, and seventh lines as a centered, single column. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black and red ink; pointed. Decoration: Textblock is gold sprinkled with border-rules in gold, black and red; the last line of each stanza is in red and framed in its own section; gold rules between columns and around sections. Provenance: Formerly owned by Jān Sipār Khān ibn Rustamdilkhān (stamp and note f. 1r). Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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