with an illuminated double page frontispiece decorated in gold and colour, the opening page with an illuminated head piece in gold and colour, a further double page of illuminated script later in the manuscript, sura headings in white script on a gold ground, verse markings of gold roundels dotted with red and encircled by blue, further marginal markers in gold and blue, the text composed of 14 lines of naskh within gold meanders and gold and blue lined margins, approximately 400 ff., a later cloth and paper binding, text incomplete, a panel of text in Pashto applied to the doublure, folio 15.5 x 9.1 cm., text 11.8 x 5.5 cm.
The doublure has a text in Pashto applied.
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with an illuminated double page frontispiece decorated in gold and colour, the opening page with an illuminated head piece in gold and colour, a further double page of illuminated script later in the manuscript, sura headings in white script on a gold ground, verse markings of gold roundels dotted with red and encircled by blue, further marginal markers in gold and blue, the text composed of 14 lines of naskh within gold meanders and gold and blue lined margins, approximately 400 ff., a later cloth and paper binding, text incomplete, a panel of text in Pashto applied to the doublure, folio 15.5 x 9.1 cm., text 11.8 x 5.5 cm.