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Poetry, Persian manuscript on cream paper, 122ff., 11ll. of black nastaliq sometimes arranged in two columns within gold and black intercolumnar rules, key words picked out in red, within gold, blue and black rules, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, colophon dated, occasional faint water stains to margins, in gilt stamped brown morocco with flap, now detached, marbled paper doublures,
Text panel 412 x 212in. (11.2 x 6.2cm.); folio 658 x 4in. (16.7 x 10.2cm.)
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The colophon of our manuscript mentions that it was completed in the Abode of the Sultanate, Constantinople

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