Ms. codex. Title from bottom edge. Binding: Lacquered red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with painted floral decorations in gold and colors on a shimmering brown field; pastedowns and flap lining of floral woven green silk with woven gold flowers. Layout: 25 long lines; border-ruled. Occasional passages of poetry in two or three columns divided by gold rules. Script: Written in neat nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Illuminated six-pointed star inside gold medallion (f. 1r); illuminated headpiece in gold, blue and red (f. 1v, 401v); illuminated text dividers (f. 158v, 221r); fill of pink flowers in empty, ruled textblock (f. 401v-402r). Textblock border-ruled in gold and black; headings centered and framed in gold rules; rubrications in red and gold. Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933. Provenance: Formerly owned by Clarence H. Clark (bookplate first flyleaf recto). Provenance: Sold at the Clarence H. Clark sale by Stan V. Henkels at the Samuel T. Freeman & Co. book auction rooms on November 30, 1909, lot 189 (catalog clipping pasted onto first flyleaf recto). Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate first flyleaf recto).
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