This is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the first collection of poetry (Dīvān-i avval or Fātiḥat al-shabāb) by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). According to the colophon, is was copied by the illustrious Safavid calligrapher Shāh Maḥmūd Nīshāpūrī (d. 972 AH / 1564-5 CE) (fol. 306a). The codex opens with a double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a), which is followed by a double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a). There are ten additional paintings that appear to date later than the text itself. These paintings are in the style of Isfahan in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The textblock, which has been trimmed, is bound in lacquer boards decorated with hunting scenes and landscape motifs.
