JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (1207-1273), Masnavi-i Ma'navi, Timurid Empire, probably Bukhara, signed and dated 889 H / 1483 and late illustrations Manuscript on paper of twenty-three lines per page in Naskhi Persian, the text divided into four columns. Introductory double page inscribed in gold in reserve on a red squared background, then manuscript divided into six books, each introduced by a frontispiece illuminated in gold and polychrome. The first one in unwâns in double-page, the text in reserve on a red squared background framed by unwâns with gilded poly-lobed medallions on a bright blue background with polychrome and gilded flowers in the frame. The five other frontispieces sarlows with gilded cartouche inscribed in reserve of the number of the book and standing out on a blue background with semis of florets. The sarlows followed by a few lines of introductory text in gold letters. In each book, different parts titled with red, blue, purple or gold inks. Text illustrated late with seven richly colored miniatures, with illuminated margins of animals set in floral scrolls. At the end of each book, several pages with verses arranged in oblique cartouches forming a geometric composition embellished with illuminated rosettes and followed by a colophon illuminated in gold and polychrome with floral motifs around a text in colored ink indicating the end of the book. The final colophon is illuminated in gold and polychrome, the text inscribed in naskhi Arabic in gold and flanked by two cruciform plant motifs and floral stems. It gives the name of the copyist Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khayri al-Ansari and the date Rajab 889 AH / 1483. Bound in dark-brown morocco with a central medallion decorated with foliage, flanked by two flowery appendages and framed by four half-lambrequin spandrels, stamped and enhanced with gold. The counter plates with similar composition in light brown morocco finely cut, openwork and enhanced with polychrome and gold. 23,5 x 15,5 cm Stains, wetness, slight tears in the edges, restorations, repaints, late illustrations. JALAL AL-DIN RUMI (1207 - 1273), Masnavi-i Ma'navi, Timurid Empire, probably Bukhara, signed and dated and late Illustrations Private collection in Paris from 1975 to 2000 - first part (lots 120 to 173).