Lot 145
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MAWLANA JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (d. AH 672/1273 AD): AL-MATHNAVI
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MAWLANA JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (d. AH 672/1273 AD): AL-MATHNAVI

COPIED BY HASANI, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, DATED AH 1018/1609-10 AD

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MAWLANA JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (d. AH 672/1273 AD): AL-MATHNAVI
COPIED BY HASANI, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, DATED AH 1018/1609-10 AD
Persian manuscript on paper, 382ff. with 20ll. of black nasta'liq, important words and headings in red, the start of each of the six parts with finely illuminated headpiece in gold and polychrome, marginal notes, each part with colophon, the last folio a later replacement, decoupé, stamped and tooled original binding, the doublures with finely painted figural scenes in the Safavid style of early 17th century Isfahan, mostly rubbed on inside front and back, but flap with clear scene of two youths within a rocky landscape and blossoming tree
Folio 12 x 7½in. (30.5 x 19cm.)
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Lot Essay

The flap and the inside of the binding are finely painted with figural scenes, in the highest quality 17th century Safavid style. Whilst the flap could only have been on the inside due to its shape, the battered condition of the figural scenes on what are currently the doublures strongly suggest they might once have been on the exterior. Safavid figural lacquered bindings are rare indeed. A 16th century example is published in Berthe Van Regemorter, Some Oriental Bindings in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 1961, MS 160, pl.33.

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