Ms. codex. Title from caption title of each work. Catalog entry, number 217, pasted to inside front cover. Binding: Bright blue paper sides over pasteboard with flap (Type II); red leather spine, fore-edge flap and along edges of the boards; narrow, gold-tooled frame; green paper doublure; flower patterns on edges. Layout: Written in 15 lines in two columns; border and column-ruled. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Headpiece in blue and gold (f. 1v); textblock border-ruled in gold, columns also ruled in gold; rubrications in red. Provenance: Formerly owned by Darvīsh Asʻad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ʻArab, in 1197 A.H. (1782) (note in ink, f. 1r). Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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