Manuscript. Persian Title from container. Written by Salmān Bint ʻAlī Pāshā. Written in India or Turkey. Paper; heavy, reinforced laid paper with vertical chain lines and no visible watermarks; sections contining lines of poetry are inlaid; text enclosed in a ruled border of thin blue, wider gold and a very wide greenish blue border; verses are divided by a similar wide greenish line and each verse block is also outlined in gold; margins ard dyed reddish with dark flecks; black ink. Nastaʻliq; 2 lines in written area 4.7 x 10.7 cm. Fol. 1b-14b Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M161. Binding; contemporary leather accordion binding; leaves written on one side only. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
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. Rypka, Jan. History of Iranian literature, p. 241 Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum, v. 2, p. 585-586 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. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.