Arabic manuscript on paper, 74 leaves, 14-15 lines to the page written in 2 columns in small neat nasta'liq script in black and red ink, mounted on album pages of a variety of colours, ruled with colours and gold, inner and wide outer margins with gilt leafy foliate decoration, illuminated double-page frontispiece with blue ground borders comprising dense interlacing coloured vegetal scrolls with cartouches in green, red and gold, including 5 finely painted miniatures, bound in contemporary gilt-stamped morocco decorated with chinese-cloud motifs, bordered with cartouches and medallions, with doublures decorated with central medallion and corners of coloured grounds set beneath fine gold filigree work, with later fitted soft leather box    

In good overall condition, the binding with some losses to the edges and quite rubbed, also the doublure filigree work, illuminated page with some light waterstains, particularly to the corners, miniatures in generally good condition with some mild rubbing and occasional small flaking, inside later leather box with some losses to extremities, as viewed.
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This manuscript of the fifteenth-century poet Jami's Haft Awrang includes stories from the Khiradnama-i-Iskandari and Yusuf and Zulaykha.

Nur al-Din Abd al-Raham Jami composed his Haft Awrang ('Seven Thrones') between 1468 and 1485 and it comprises the following seven poems: Silsilatu'th Dhahab (The Chain of Gold); Salaman wa Absal; Tuhfatu'l-Ahrar (The Gift of the Noble); Subhatu'l-Abrar (The Rosary of the Pious); Yusuf u Zulaykha; Layla wa Majnun and Khiradnama-i-Iskandari (The Book of Wisdom of Alexander). For a detailed discussion of this work see E.G. Browne, A Literary History of Persia, Vol.III (1265-1502), Cambridge, 1964, pp.515-540.

The scribe Mir Ali al-Hussaini is mentioned in Bayani, vol.II, pp.452-3. He is also known to have signed Katib Soltani, and his works are dated from between A.H. ꦚ980 an𓆉d 1008/A.D. 1572-1599.