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Mathnawi(?)
Persian manuscript on paper, each folio with lines of 6 couplets in black nasta'liq written diagonally in four columns, some lines in red, gold intercolumnar divisions between black rules, similar margin with red and blue outer rule, ruled outer margin, opening folio with silver and polychrome later illuminated heading, (incomplete), modern brown binding, Persia, probabaly 18th century - 10¾ x 7in. (27.5 x 17.8cm.)

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