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Folio 73b from MS A 86 which features a sample folio from Qiwām al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥasanī's ‘Urwat al-usṭurlāb (The Handle of the Astrolabe). The thin, lightly-glossed, brown paper is now quite discoloured. It is fibrous and has inclusions, with horizontal laid lines. It is stained and water damaged near the edges. The text is written in a medium-small professional calligraphic naskh script, fully vocalized. There is a note in the center right margin.
MS A 86, fol. 73b
The front cover binding of MS P 28 which incorporated the covers from an 18th-century Persian/Turkish binding of light-brown leather over pasteboards. On each cover there is a blind-stamped mandorla panel stamp with two large pendants. The pattern of the central panel stamp is a concentric design of vines with two flower buds and two small flower heads around a central flower in full bloom. The two pendants have a single stemmed flower outlined by a row of dots. Blind-tooled vertical and diagonal lines connect the central panel stamp to the frame. The latter is formed of a single blind-tooled line and a row of S-stamps.
MS P 28, binding
(front cover)
Folio 2b from an anonymous and untitled Persian treatise on astronomy featuring a diagram of the heavenly spheres in red ink on the left center of the folio. The text is written in a small naskh tending toward ta‘liq script in black ink with headings in red and with red overlinings. The glossy brown paper has only laid lines visible.
MS P 28, fol. 2b

Folio 3b from an anonymous and untitled Persian treatise on astronomy featuring two planetary diagrams in red and black ink in the top right and bottom left corner of the folio. The text surrounding the diagrams is written in a small naskh tending toward ta‘liq script in black ink with headings in red and with red overlinings. The glossy brown paper has only laid lines visible.
MS P 28, fol. 3b
Folio 4a from an anonymous and untitled Persian treatise on astronomy featuring two planetary diagrams in red and black ink in the top right and bottom left corner of the folio. The text surrounding the diagrams is written in a small naskh tending toward ta‘liq script in black ink with headings in red and with red overlinings. The glossy brown paper has only laid lines visible.
MS P 28, fol. 4a
Folio 10a from an anonymous and untitled Persian treatise on astronomy featuring the colophon. The text is written in a small naskh tending toward ta‘liq script in black ink. There are notes in the top and left margins. The glossy brown paper has only laid lines visible.
MS P 28, fol. 10a
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