Hafiz, Layla wa Majnun, illustrated with 22 miniatures, North India, Kashmir, dated AH 1246/AD 1830-31

Persian manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 247 leaves, 12 lines to the page written in two columns of clear nasta'liq script in black ink, intercolumnar and interlinear rules richly decorated with flowerheads on a gold ground, inner margins ruled in green, blue and gold, catchwords, 22 miniatures in gouache and gold, one double-page frontispiece and one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, some crude repairs mostly restricted to outer margins, later Hebrew inscription written on flyleaf at beginning, Qajar floral lacquer binding, doublures decorated with irises on a red ground, rebacked
143 x 104 mm.