ID 1178323
Lot 33 | JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (D.1273): MATHNAWI MA'NAWI
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
SIGNED MUHAMMAD IBN MUHAMMAD IBN AHMAD AL-KHAYRI AL-ANSARI, TIMURID HERAT, DATED RAJAB AH 889/JULY-AUGUST 1484 AD
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 331ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 23ll. fine black naskh arranged in four columns, headings in polychrome thuluth in panels set within the inner two columns, the margins plain, catchwords, the opening bifolio with 17ll. of gold thuluth in clouds reserved against red hatched ground, the following bifolio with 9ll. of black naskh set arranged in two columns with gold, lapis, and polychrome illuminated margins, with five further illuminated headpieces throughout the text, with eight later full page illustrations with illuminated margins, the colophon signed and dated, in contemporaneous gilt tooled leather binding, the doublures with decoupé medallions and spandrels, overall excellent condition
Text panel 5 5⁄8 x 3 ¾in. (14.3 x 9.6cm.); folio 9 ¼ x 5 7⁄8in. (23.5 x 14.9cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale, Christie's London, 28 April 1992, lot 102
| Art style: | Timurid (1378-1506) |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts, Books and manuscripts |
| Art style: | Timurid (1378-1506) |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts, Books and manuscripts |
| Address of auction |
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