Arabic manuscript on paper, 499 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 13 lines to the page, the first, middle and last written in gold or blue muhaqqaq, the intervening lines in neat black naskh on gold speckled paper, ruled in blue and gold, verses separated by gold and blue rosettes, surah headings in white against a gold ground within a polychrome cartouche, Qajar period remargining throughout, with gold and polychrome verse markers in the margins and cartouches with commentary in black shikasteh in clouds against a gold ground, f.1a with a gold and polychrome shamsa, f.1b and 2a with a double-page illuminated frontispiece comprising a central lobed panel against a blue ground decorated with floral scrolls, f.2b with a polychrome and gold illuminated heading, the text of this bifolium written within clouds against a gold ground, f.492b and 493a with a falnama in alternating gold and white within cartouches surrounded by an illuminated border, in Qajar lacquer binding, each board decorated with a nightingale perching on branches (gol-e bulbul)