Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Sirr-i bakhyah

Manuscript. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Possibly written in northern Iran. Paper: tan colored glazed laid paper with horizontal chain line and obscured armorial watermark, and countermark G M ; black ink in cursive Nastaʻliq; catchwords; lacuna from Folio 1-26 caused by insect or rodent damage, with some loss of text. Nastaʻliq; 13 lines in written area 17 x 9 cm. Folio 1b-65b; 66a notes in Persian and Armenian. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M307a. Binding: medium brown leather with embossed gold center medallions front and back. With: Badīʻī Tabrīzī. Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Mus̲allas̲ah. [May 1867]. Persian. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009.