PERSIA, AH RABI I 1070/NOVEMBER 1659 AD
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Jalal al-Din al-Rumi: Mathnawi
Persia, AH Rabi I 1070/November 1659 AD
Persian manuscript on ivory-coloured paper, 425ff. each with 19ll. of neat black naskh arranged in two columns and 30ll. arranged diagonally around the main text, gold rules between blocks of text, gold margins, occasional passages and titles in red, very light staining, opening bifolio with gold clouds and gold and polychrome illumination, slight damages, final folio with colophon signed Khwaja Maulana la-Gazaruni and dated Rabi I 1070, in later black morocco binding
Folio 8¾ x 5in. (22.5 x 13cm.); text 6 x 2¾in. (15 x 7.5cm.)
Persia, AH Rabi I 1070/November 1659 AD
Persian manuscript on ivory-coloured paper, 425ff. each with 19ll. of neat black naskh arranged in two columns and 30ll. arranged diagonally around the main text, gold rules between blocks of text, gold margins, occasional passages and titles in red, very light staining, opening bifolio with gold clouds and gold and polychrome illumination, slight damages, final folio with colophon signed Khwaja Maulana la-Gazaruni and dated Rabi I 1070, in later black morocco binding
Folio 8¾ x 5in. (22.5 x 13cm.); text 6 x 2¾in. (15 x 7.5cm.)