<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>Received from Kaufmann. Mentioned in the report of the Imperial Library of 1872, p.35. Colophon is rewritten but without any doubt reproduces the original one.</p><p>Binding - Oriental, simple of dark brown leather mounted on thick cardboard. The interior sides of the covers are made of pretty dark pink smooth leather. Torn on the edge in several places.</p><p>Paper is white, glossy, Oriental of different quality, in good condition, though some folia are stained with spots.</p><p>The text is in Indian nasta‘liq of the medium size in Indian ink, headings in red (plumbum ink) The first 3 lines of the introduction are much bigger than the rest of the copy. The handwriting is rather crude, sometimes illegible. First 50 ff. have 27 lines per page, the next several pages, 26 lines, the rest, 25 lines per page.</p><p>Full copy in the brief version with two interpolations. Total number of the baits is 50,000. Text is full of mistakes.</p><p>Ff. 1v-6v contain pre-Baysunghur Preface the satire on Mahmud (111 baits) and the list of the kings. Normative incipit: Sipas-u Afarin mar khuday-ra ki in jahan…</p><p>The satire on Mahmud (ff. 4v-5v) contain has its incipit is: bidan shahriyar-a ki in ruzgar…</p><p>The poem starts on f.7v with the folowing incipit:</p><p>Ba nam-I khudavand-I jan-u khirad / kih dil-ra zi andisha biguzarad (can be even naguzarad – no dots!).</p><p>Ff. 14r-20r contain interpolation about the daughter of the Shah of Kabul.</p><p>Ff. 213r-254r contains the Barzu-nama.</p><p>Some of the catchwords are corrected or wrong (ff.75, 190), suggesting some disturbance of the text.</p><p>Illuminations: there are five 'unvans (ff. 1v, 7v, 163v, 313v, 446v) with good details of the floral design in blue, gold and polychrome. According to Gyuzalyan-Dyakonov they do not have any artistic value, but they compare well with somoe others from the same milieu.</p><p>Text is in frames of orange, yellow and blue lines.</p><p>Miniatures: there are 46 miniatures in typical Kashmir style with local large surfaces of orange, pink and green, rather crude, sometimes with the notes on the margins, but sometimes depicting non-traditional subjects. See further, Gyuzalyan and Dyakonov, pp. 115-118.</p></p>
