VOLUMES III AND IV OF THE SIX BOOKS OF JALAL AL-DIN MUHAMMAD BALKHI RUMI'S MATHNAWI-YE MA’NAWI
Early Qajar Iran, late 18th - early 19th century

Two volumes of Persian manuscripts on paper, one volume 98ff. and 1 fly-leaf, the latter 128ff., each folio with 21ll. of crisp black nasta’liq script, chapter headings in red, the text divided into two columns, set in gold and black rules, deprived of illuminations, featuring catchwords at the page's end, with a profusion of marginal notes, introductions, and several ownership and library stamps, in modern black board binding, the text panel 17cm x 6.9cm, the folio 23.9cm x 12.7cm.