880-01 Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273, author. ʻAlī ibn Ḥaydar al-Qāsimī, active 15th/16th centuries, scribe. manuscripttext per Manuscript. 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. Rypka, Jan. History of Iranian literature, Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum, Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.) Turkey Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/plmp.m072