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JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (D.1273): MATHNAWI MA`NAWI

Lot 67
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 15 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1306559
Lot 67 | JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (D.1273): MATHNAWI MA'NAWI
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 20 000
JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (D.1273): MATHNAWI MA'NAWI
SIGNED IBN MANSUR MUHAMMAD AMIN TABRIZI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED RABI' II 1054 AND JUMADA I 1055/JUNE-JULY 1644 AND JUNE-JULY 1645
Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, 305ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 25ll. fine black nasta'liq arranged in four columns, except in prose preambles where arranged in a single column, gold margins and outer rule, headings and selected couplets in red nasta'liq in panels, the margins plain with some marginal notes, catchwords, the first 13ff. consisting of the preambles (dibacha) and indices (fihrist) of each of the six books (daftar), the opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece and gold illuminated margins, the opening bifolios of each of the six books decorated in the same manner, with six contemporary ink paintings each annotated "it was drawn from the work of masterfulness of Sadiq Beg" and with later stamps dated AH 1145/1732-3 AD, the colophon of the third book dated, the colophon of the sixth book signed and dated, in contemporaneous tan stamped morocco binding, later paper doublures, penultimate folio missing, repairs throughout
Text panel 12 x 6 3/8in. (30.5 x 16cm.); folio 15 x 9 ¼in. (38.3 x 23.4cm.);




Provenance

Christie's London, 23 April 1996, lot 73



Engraved

Faintly inscribed on each ink painting, 'it was drawn from the work of masterfulness of Sadiq Beg'
Medium:Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic
Art style:Safavid (1506-1722)
Place of origin:Iran, Asia
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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