Folio

Folios in accordion style on very heavy cardboard with first and last folios once cut so as to form an ornamented box. Three illuminations in red, two shades of blue, white, tan, brown, yellow, green, black, and pink at beginning of text proper (=atha vajadharah...) on ff.2 and 3, one covering the entire verso of f.2. Folios colored yellow, with orange border. The yellow is wearing off on parts of some folios. Red is painted in over invocations at beginning of text proper, over colophons, over many visargas, usually after colophons. Horizontal lines have been scored with red for the purpose of writing in straight lines, and two vertical lines in black have been scored on both the right and left of the text on each folio. The verso of the last folio with text, the following three folios, and the recto of the last folio (ff.31 verso-35 recto) have these lines scored on them though the text has ended on f.31 recto. (On f.35 recto, however, someone has added, in pencil, a lengthy note in Devanagari script.) F.13 recto has also bee prepared in this way, but it was skipped over in writing the text and instead it has been crossed through in black with double lines. Occasionally red dots, or just wash, have been applied in the space between the two double black lines to the right and left of the text. There are a few marginal additions of omitted letters. Mistakes have been surrounded by many small dots. Folios not numbered. Writing in Devanagari script, in pencil, also appears on what is now left of the top cover.