Ms. codex. Title from added title (f. 1r). Layout: Written mostly in 2 columns of 15 lines, a few pages with long lines instead; textblock borde-ruled in ink; catchwords each verso, lower left. Script: Written in nastaʻlīq script. Decoration: 3 illuminated headpieces in blue and gold with touches of red (f. 1v, 198v, 221r), with space left blank for another (f. 203v); rubrication in red, ending in the second section (f. 2r-190v) except for a single rubricated page in the fourth section (f. 231r); textblock border-ruled in multiple ink lines and a narrow gold rule and divided by narrow gold lines, with the gold largely... Binding: Bound in dark brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); gilt stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; red leather doublure; front cover detached. Origin: The item is undated, perhaps copied in the 16th century. Earlier ownership stamps (f. 1r). Formerly owned by Captain Robert Mignan, who commanded the escort for the East India Company's representative in Basra, Iraq, from 1826-1828; gift of Mignan to Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1829 (ms. 3932; note and stamp on front flyleaf, partial label on spine). Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 25 November 1968, lot 258, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. Early ownership stamps (f. 1r).
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