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SIGNED AHMAD, KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, DATED [12]55/1839-40 AD
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JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (D. AH 672/1273 AD): MATHNAVI
SIGNED AHMAD, KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, DATED [12]55/1839-40 AD
Rumi's famous didactic poem, Persian manuscript on paper, 370ff. plus four fly-leaves, 21ll. of black nasta'liq to the page arranged in two columns with double divisions, further text written diagonally around the main central panel, within gold and polychrome rules, titles in red, opening bifolio finely illuminated in gold and polychrome, each chapter with illuminated headpiece, colophons with various dates, in damaged original brown morocco
Text panel 8 ½ x 3 7/8in. (21.6 x 9.6cm.); folio 10 ¾ x 6in. (27.3 x 15.1cm.)
SIGNED AHMAD, KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, DATED [12]55/1839-40 AD
Rumi's famous didactic poem, Persian manuscript on paper, 370ff. plus four fly-leaves, 21ll. of black nasta'liq to the page arranged in two columns with double divisions, further text written diagonally around the main central panel, within gold and polychrome rules, titles in red, opening bifolio finely illuminated in gold and polychrome, each chapter with illuminated headpiece, colophons with various dates, in damaged original brown morocco
Text panel 8 ½ x 3 7/8in. (21.6 x 9.6cm.); folio 10 ¾ x 6in. (27.3 x 15.1cm.)
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