Persian manuscript on paper, 418 leaves, 11 lines to the page written in nasta'liq script in black ink, and further text of Bustan written diagonally in the area between the text panel and the outer margins, some words in gold, inner margins ruled in colours and gold, headings in gold and blue, occasional illuminated panels beside headings, one double-page illuminated frontispiece (the opening to the preface), one further illuminated headpiece (the opening to the Gulistan), eight miniatures in gouache and gold, colophon defaced, Qajar lacquer binding in the style of Najaf 'Ali, covers depicting the Virgin Mary with Joseph and with the Christ Child, inner covers depicting scholars in disputation 270 x 175 mm.