Layout: 13 lines Script: Naskh. Decoration: Finely executed floral headpieces in gilt, blue, and red; sections separated with gilt bands. Blue and gold ʻunwān. Decoration: ruled frame of gilt, black, red, and blue inks. Binding: red leather flap binding, gilt borders, over dark fabric? panel (now largely perished). Annotations in several hands on first and final few leaves. Provenance: Formerly Chapin MS 28. Collection of devotional tracts in small naskh hand. Contains shorter sūrahs of the Koran such as chapters 36, 67, 78 and quotations 2:247; further the asma Allah al-husna, the tavhid-i bari (Persian), the list of the participants in the battle of Badr; hadith quotations with abbreviations of sources referred to; prayer for the cure of the sick. For the Naqshahandi Sufi order.
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