Description
Title provided by cataloger, from title of first text. Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (professional hand) in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a border in gold outlined in black inscribed in a blue line. European paper. Spine label (horizontal), with inscription in Arabic script reading "ʻIlal al-amrāḍ". Stained with water and humidity; some loose leaves. Decoration: Opens with a double page of magnificent illumination (fol. 1b-2a), with text written in gold clouds, margins filled with scrollwork bearing stylized floral motifs, executed in gold and colors on a natural ground, and a large headpiece (ʻunwān), in gold and colors, with floral scrolls and title of first text in white (fol. 1b). Origin: Copy of Kitāb al-Nabḍ dated Dār al-Mulk Shīrāz, Jumādá al-Thānī 1061 [May-June 1651], by Manūchihr Ibn Maqṣūd (fol. 297a). The rest of the copy is apparently written by the same hand.