Farhād va Shīrīn : manuscript, undated

Written in two columns, 14 lines per page, in a divani script in black ink, framed within double golden and blue lines. With catchwords on the verso of each leaf.

There are illuminated double title page, and 5 nearly full-page miniatures. Caption bands are in gold and colors.

Bound in leather with boards. Upper cover lacquered with bird and flowers on outside, miniature inside. Lower cover is blind-tooled black leather over board. Binding has been repaired.

The ms is probably from 18th or 19th century.

Oblong seal on fol. 1r.

Thin cream laid paper. Paper size: 15 x 9.5 cm. (text size: 10.7 x 5.5 cm.).

Persian literature.

Persian poems.

MS Persian 22. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

In Persian.