Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. "Aga Fasahut ally in Benares" note in ink (flyleaf 1 recto at front of book). Binding: Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind-stamped and gilded onlays of a central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and three frames with inside covers also of reddish brown leather with a simpler mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces in gilt-stamped onlays. Layout: 9 long lines; border-ruled. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in blue and red (f. 1v); rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in red and blue; 14 illustrations with captions in contour bands (f. 23r, 23v, 25r, 27r, 29r, 31r, 33r, 34r, 35r, 37v-38r, 39r, 40r, 41r) Provenance: Formerly owned by Āghā Faṣāḥat ʻAlī and purchased from "a person whose father was the grand vizier Nawwāb Naṣīr al-Dawlah Bahādur, for the father of the Mahārājah Rājah" [incomplete] (Simsar, 175) (f. 1r). Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's Feb. 1925, lot 165 (catalog entry pasted to front flyleaf recto and note in pencil). Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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