کتاب رومی المولوی

Manuscript..

Persian..

Caption title..

Copied by ʻAlī ibn Ḥaydar al-Qāsimī..

Probably written in Turkey..

Paper; thin cream color lightly polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; elaborate unwan and first 3 leaves with decordations in blue and gold; text in 3 columns with text of Masnavi in 2 columns and a commentary written diagonally in the third; text enclosed in narrow ruled border of blue and gold; some rubrication; catchwords on rectos..

Nastaʻliq; 17 lines in written area 15 x 8 cm..

Fol. 1b-551a..

Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M72..

Elaborate contemporary brown leather binding with gold medallions in center and corners and a gold tooled border; more recently re-backed..