Ms. codex. Title from spine. Binding: Bound in green half covers with marbled sides. Layout: Several different layouts: f. 1r-7v in 16 long lines; f. 8v-21v in 16-18 lines with 6 lines in three sets of two inset on each page; f. 24v-51v in 13 long lines; f. 54r-67v, 76r-119v, and 124r-127v laid out in landscape, with the text running parallel to the gutter, generally with two lines inset at the head of the page, then 7 lines in two columns; f. 69r-75v, 8 lines in two columns... Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Rubrications in red. Border-ruled in red for text areas, including between columns. Six full-page illustrations in color (f. 23v, 53v, 60v, 89r, 100r, 114r) and two smaller illustrations set into the text (f. 76r). Provenance: Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933. Provenance: Purchased in "Benares India, Dec 1905" (note in pencil, flyleaf 1 verso). Provenance: Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate inside front cover). Provenance: Sold in Perkins' sale at Anderson Galleries on March 23 and 24, 1926, lot 579 (catalog cutting pasted across the back inside cover and last flyleaf verso). Provenance: Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
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