Persian manuscript on brown paper, 300 leaves, 21 lines to the page written in four columns of small nasta'liq script in black ink, double intercolumnar ruled in blue and gold, trimmed with loss of some catchwords, occasional commentaries in margins, 4 illuminated headpices in colours and gold, lacking one headpiece left blank, worming and waterstaining throughout, 1 folio detached, European style red calf gilt binding, worn, doublures and fly leaves of green paper, 220 x 150 mm.; and a Persian manuscript of Sa'di's Gulistan copied by Ilahi-Bakhsh, bought at Lahore in 1846 (2)
Persian manuscript on brown paper, 300 leaves, 21 lines to the page written in four columns of small nasta'liq script in black ink, double intercolumnar ruled in blue and gold, trimmed with loss of some catchwords, occasional commentaries in margins, 4 illuminated headpices in colours and gold, lacking one headpiece left blank, worming and waterstaining throughout, 1 folio detached, European style red calf gilt binding, worn, doublures and fly leaves of green paper, 220 x 150 mm.; and a Persian manuscript of Sa'di's Gulistan copied by Ilahi-Bakhsh, bought at Lahore in 1846 (2)
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