Devised title based on vendor's description.
Copied by the scribe Ahmadallah, known as Hakim.
"Masnavi [Sufi Poetry]...Persian manuscript on paper, 650 pp., text written horizontally in two columns of 17 lines to the page in small nast'aliq script in black ink, and approximately 32 lines written diagonally in inner borders of each page, catchwords written in outer borders, inner and outer borders ruled in blue, red and gold, significant verses picked out in red ink throughout, text interspersed with illuminated corner-pieces decorated with floral motifs in colours and gold, one double page of illumination in colours and gold at the beginning incorporating the opening verses of the poem (torn at inner margin just into illumination), text interspersed with other illuminated pages throughout, seal impression of "Nur Muhammad" at end, some marginal water-staining and a few repairs to edges, contemporary calf, gilt, lower joint cracked, 8vo (219 x 125mm.), Kashmir, 5th Jumada al-Thani, A.H. 1243 / [24th December 1827]." --Provided by vendor.
Book of hours, decorated initials, prayer book, Tournai use
Contains hundreds of decorated initials, with a pre-French Revolution provenance at the Capuchin friary in Lille, a named owner, Canon Grandel, in a local eighteenth-century binding probably dateable to 1734.
Almost certainly produced in Lille, French Flanders (under Spanish rule from 1477, or (less likely) in south Flanders, possible Bruges ... Written for male use, according to the emasculine forms of the Obsecro te and O intemerata"-- frp,
bookdealer's description in catalogue.
Leather bound with clasp. Latin words in black and red ink, initials in black, blue and red ink. Neumes in black ink, on a four-line staff in red, with interlinear words. Every other page numbered in light pencil.
