Lot Essay
Two notes on the final page give the dates of 15 Ramadan AH 879/23 January 1475 AD and 11 Ramadan AH 998/14 July 1590 AD.
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SIGNED DARWISH 'ALI BIN MUHAMMAD, TIMURID IRAN OR ANATOLIA, DATED 7 RAMADAN AH 818/10 NOVEMBER 1415 AD
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JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (D. 1273 AD): MATHNAVI
SIGNED DARWISH 'ALI BIN MUHAMMAD, TIMURID IRAN OR ANATOLIA, DATED 7 RAMADAN AH 818/10 NOVEMBER 1415 AD
The famous mystical poetry of Rumi, Persian manuscript on paper, 275ff. as numbered plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of black naskh script, the text arranged in four columns with double red or gold intercolumnar rules, with later comments written on the diagonal within marginal text panels, titles in red and blue naskh script, opening folio with finely illuminated headpiece with a kufic basmallah over gold floral scrolls on blue ground, the heading of the second folio with a basmallah in gold thuluth script, catchwords, later marginal notes, colophon possibly added, repairs, some waterstaining, in brown morocco binding with flap
Text panel 9 x 7in. (22.8 x 17.8cm.); folio 13 3/8 x 10 1/8in. (34 x 25.8cm.)
SIGNED DARWISH 'ALI BIN MUHAMMAD, TIMURID IRAN OR ANATOLIA, DATED 7 RAMADAN AH 818/10 NOVEMBER 1415 AD
The famous mystical poetry of Rumi, Persian manuscript on paper, 275ff. as numbered plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of black naskh script, the text arranged in four columns with double red or gold intercolumnar rules, with later comments written on the diagonal within marginal text panels, titles in red and blue naskh script, opening folio with finely illuminated headpiece with a kufic basmallah over gold floral scrolls on blue ground, the heading of the second folio with a basmallah in gold thuluth script, catchwords, later marginal notes, colophon possibly added, repairs, some waterstaining, in brown morocco binding with flap
Text panel 9 x 7in. (22.8 x 17.8cm.); folio 13 3/8 x 10 1/8in. (34 x 25.8cm.)