تحفه الصلوات

Manuscript..

Persian..

Title from fol. 1b..

Name of scribe not indicated..

Probably written in Iran..

Paper; thick, cream-color laid paper with vertical chain lines; no visible watermarks; small colored unwan on 1b; black ink with rubrication; text is enclosed in a single thin blue line; dampstaining to upper portion with no loss of text, however the unwan has been damaged and the ink smeared; black ink with rubrication; few notes and corrections in margins; catchwords on rectos..

Nastaʼliq; 13 lines in written area 10 x 6.3 cm..

Fol. 1b-168a..

Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M 43..

Contemporary dark brown leather binding with embossed medallions front and back..

Treatise in eight chapters on ritual prayer..