Sūrat al-Qāf - Persian manuscript

Sūrat al-Ahqāf with interlinear Persian translation.
Manuscript.
Arabic and Persian.
[Source of title]
Scribe not identified.
Written in India.
Paper; cream or light beige color paper in very poor condition; the signatures are held together loosely with fine white threads; the opening pages are badly damaged; pages are illuminated with large and unusual, spade-shaped, Indian-style blue and gold decorations with tiny red decorative motifs framing the text on the first two pages; there are many losses, especially on the first page; Arabic text is in black ink and the interlinear Persian translation in red.
Bihari style cursive naskh
Several small illuminations in the margins.
[Collation]
Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M142.
Lacks binding; existing acidic endpapers are very brittle.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.