JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (D. AH 672/1273 AD): MATHNAVI

JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (D. AH 672/1273 AD): MATHNAVI
KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, DATED 1 RAMADAN AH 1224/10 OCTOBER 1809 AD
Persian manuscript on cream paper, 284ff. plus four flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. of elegant nasta'liq divided into two columns, gold and polychrome rules, margins with copious commentary in white clouds reserved against gold ground, headings in black-outlined gold on gold ground with scrolling floral vine, triangular cartouches with gold floral illumination on blue ground, two gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces in text, five contents pages with chapter headings in gold and polychrome floral lattice, end of part two with colophon giving the time of completion as the last prayer of Wednesday 1 Ramadan 1224, opening bifolio fully illuminated, the margins with interlocking palmettes and bands of geometric strapwork, in contemporaneous floral lacquer binding, the doublures with large botehs containing rosettes on scrolling floral ground, 3ff. at the opening loose in the binding
Text panel 4½ x 2¼in. (11 x 5.6cm.); folio 8 x 4 7/8in. (20.2 x 12.4cm.)