Preface (verso) from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)

Tattered aged paper with darker spots and stains; beige color. A rectangle with blue and gold patterned rectangular border at top; rectangle filled with gold and blue floral designs. A blue and gold patterned border; a gold line borders text. Black text fills most of the page; text written in Arabic script.