Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Notations on inside front cover. Numerous stamps with the scribe's name appear throughout. Catalog entry, number 186, pasted in (first front flyleaf recto). Binding: Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with flap on the right side (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla and cornerpiece with matching stamps on flap; yellow laid paper doublure. Layout: Numerous sets of 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. Several pages of prose history without roundels, chiefly 21 long lines. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized. Decoration: Roundels are decorated with red, yellow and green dots and in-fill with red lines connecting them. Rubrications in red. Two headpieces in red and black (f. 48v, 49v). Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's in February 1925 (note in pencil, first front flyleaf recto). Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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