FATHER JEROME XAVIER (1549-1617): DASTAN-I MASIH, MUGHAL NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1602

FATHER JEROME XAVIER (1549-1617): DASTAN-I MASIH
MUGHAL NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1602
Persian manuscript on paper, 183ff. plus seven flyleaves, 15ll. of elegant black nasta'liq arranged in two columns, within gold and blue rules, headings in red in gold-ruled cartouches, marginal notes in red, catchwords, incomplete and lacking illustrated folios, in later morocco with stamped floral medallions and spandrels, blue paper doublures, a description of the text in a 19th century hand pasted onto the opening flyleaf
Text panel 6 x 3in. (15.2 x 7.2cm.); folio 8¾ x 5¼in. (22.2 x 13.4cm.)

Provenance

Anon sale in these Rooms, 9 October 2014, lot 142