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Subject Headings - Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.) - India Notes - Manuscript. - Persian. - Binder's title. - Written in India. - Paper: cream-color Eastern laid paper; black ink with with highly decorated major ʻunwāns; minor ʻunwāns in gold ink, now very faded; four columns enclosed in a thin red-blue-yellow border; text begins on folio 1b with rubrication and gold interlinear decoration up to folio 3a; folios 1b and 2a have elaobroate border of grape decoration in various shades of green and gold; catchwords on rectos. - Browne, E. G. Literary history of Persia, v. 1, p. 110-123 - Nastaʻliq; 25 lines in written area 25 x 15.5 cm - Full page paintings on folios 1a, 144a, 193b, 412b; half-page paintings on folios 10a, 10b, 127a, 157b, 193a, 230a409a; two small paintings in lower corners on folios 133a, 402a. - Folio 1a-422a - Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, 304/37. - Early dark brown 20th century Library of Congress binding. - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.