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TIMURID IRAN, CIRCA 1500
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JALAL A-DIN MUHAMMAD RUMI (D.1273): MATHNAVI
TIMURID IRAN, CIRCA 1500
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 402ff. plus two fly-leaves, each with 25ll. small black naskh arranged in three columns, the third at a diagonal, with double gold intercolumnar rules, within gold and black rules, headings in red, catchwords, occasional marginal notations, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece and triangular illuminated panels in the outer columns, floral gold illumination between intercolumnar rules, five further illuminated bifolios denoting the start of each book, colophon (?), owner's notes on reverse of final page, undecorated brown leather binding with flap missing
Text box (15.5 x 9cm.); folio (13 x 20.4cm.)
TIMURID IRAN, CIRCA 1500
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 402ff. plus two fly-leaves, each with 25ll. small black naskh arranged in three columns, the third at a diagonal, with double gold intercolumnar rules, within gold and black rules, headings in red, catchwords, occasional marginal notations, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece and triangular illuminated panels in the outer columns, floral gold illumination between intercolumnar rules, five further illuminated bifolios denoting the start of each book, colophon (?), owner's notes on reverse of final page, undecorated brown leather binding with flap missing
Text box (15.5 x 9cm.); folio (13 x 20.4cm.)
