THE FOURTH BOOK (DAFTAR) OF MAWLANA RUMI’S MATHNAWI-YE MA'NAVI
Qajar Iran, 19th century

Persian manuscript on paper, 102ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 21ll. of black Persian nasta’liq script, the text arranged in two columns, catchwords, chapter headings in red, within gold, black and blue double rules, plain end paper, in brown calf binding, the text panel 13.5cm x 5.5cm, the folio 17.2cm x 10cm.